Buena Park, Orange County
Assisted living and care homes in Buena Park
31
licensed care homes
Across 2 ZIP codes.
29
are six-bed homes
Ordinary houses, almost none of them listed anywhere.
2
larger communities
The ones you have already found online.
329
licensed beds
An average of about 11 per home.
Counted from the California Department of Social Services licensed register, state extract published May 2025. Licensing changes between extracts, so check any home's current status on the state's own search before you sign anything.
Almost entirely houses
Only two of Buena Park's licensed facilities have more than six beds. Everything else is an ordinary house on an ordinary street with five or six older residents living in it. No other city in this part of the county is so completely a small-home market.
If what your father needs is hands rather than activities — help to the bathroom, help dressing, somebody within earshot at three in the morning — that is a genuine strength. A caregiver who knows five people well does that better than a building with a front desk, and Buena Park is almost nothing but that kind of home.
And a real limitation
It cuts the other way for somebody sociable and still sharp. Five housemates, most of them frailer, can be a lonelier life than two hundred people and a dining room. If that describes your father, the honest answer is that Buena Park is the wrong city to search and Fullerton, fifteen minutes north, is the right one.
We would rather say that now than show you three houses that were never going to work.
Finding them at all
Twenty-nine unlisted houses is a hard search to run alone. They do not advertise, they have no websites, and the only public record of most of them is a line in a state spreadsheet. That is the gap this agency exists to cover.
From the state register
Every licensed community of more than six beds in Buena Park
Licence numbers included so you can look any of them up yourself rather than taking our word for it.
- Harvest Retirement9011 Knott Ave, Buena Park 90620106 beds · licensed 2016
- The Cottages at Artesia6041 Kingman Avenue, Buena Park 9062155 beds · licensed 2022
The other 29 licensed homes in Buena Park are six-bed board and care houses. They have no signage and almost no online presence, which is the part of this market we are actually for.
Common questions
Care in Buena Park, answered
- How many care homes are in Buena Park?
- The state register lists 31 licensed residential care facilities in Buena Park with 329 licensed beds between them. Twenty-nine of the 31 are licensed for six beds or fewer, the highest proportion of any city near Anaheim.
- Is there a large assisted living community in Buena Park?
- Only two facilities in the city have more than six beds. If a larger community is what the family wants, Fullerton is about fifteen minutes north and has twelve of them.
- Why can I not find these homes online?
- Because six-bed board and care homes almost never advertise. They are private houses, they fill by word of mouth and by referral, and their addresses are not something we republish. The licensed list is public; finding which ones have a bed is the work.
Nearby
We cover the cities around Anaheim too
Families rarely care about city limits. They care about the drive on a Sunday, which usually means looking two or three towns wide.
Last reviewed . Figures are re-checked against their sources whenever this page is revised.
Twenty-nine houses with no websites
We know them. Tell us what your father needs and we will tell you which could take him, which we would not use, and whether Buena Park is even the right city for him.
Tell us who you are looking after
Four short questions. Nothing you answer is shared with a facility until you say so.
Prefer to talk now? (714) 975-9652, open every day until 6pm.