Orange, Orange County
Assisted living and care homes in Orange
67
licensed care homes
Across 5 ZIP codes.
60
are six-bed homes
Ordinary houses, almost none of them listed anywhere.
7
larger communities
The ones you have already found online.
1,150
licensed beds
An average of about 17 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.
The small-home capital of north Orange County
Nine out of ten licensed care homes in Orange are six-bed board and care houses. That is a higher proportion than Anaheim, higher than Fullerton, higher than anywhere else within a fifteen minute drive. It is a market made almost entirely of the part nobody advertises.
It is also unusually spread out. Orange's homes sit across five ZIP codes rather than clustering in one, which means the practical question here is not which neighbourhood to search but which side of the city your family can actually drive to on a Sunday.
The hospital effect
Two of Orange's larger communities sit on The City Drive, in the medical district around the UCI Medical Center. Families often end up looking here because that is where a parent was treated, not because they live nearby. That is a reasonable instinct for a short rehab stay and a poor one for somewhere to live, because the thing that matters after the first fortnight is who visits, not how close the hospital is.
What we would do here
In a market this skewed towards six-bed homes, a shortlist is worth far more than a search. The houses are unlisted, availability turns over weekly, and the only way to know which of the sixty would take your mother at her level of need is to have been inside them and to ring round.
From the state register
Every licensed community of more than six beds in Orange
Licence numbers included so you can look any of them up yourself rather than taking our word for it.
- Oakmont of Orange630 The City Drive South, Orange 92868155 beds · licensed 2020
- Mainplace Senior Living1800 1832 W. Culver Avenue, Orange 92868153 beds · licensed 2019
- Sunrise of Orange1301 E Lincoln Avenue, Orange 92865139 beds · licensed 2023
- Park Plaza620 S. Glassell Street, Orange 92866115 beds · licensed 2001
- Citrus Hills Assisted Living142 S Prospect St, Orange 9286995 beds · licensed 2019
- Activcare Orange2629 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange 9286972 beds · licensed 2020
- Kirkwood Orange1525 E Taft Avenue, Orange 9286566 beds · licensed 2020
The other 60 licensed homes in Orange 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 Orange, answered
- How many care homes are there in Orange, California?
- The state's licensed register lists 67 residential care facilities for the elderly in the city of Orange, with 1,150 licensed beds between them. Sixty of the 67 are licensed for six beds or fewer.
- Is Orange a good place to look for board and care?
- It has the highest proportion of small homes of any city near Anaheim, so the choice is genuinely wide. The difficulty is that almost none of them advertise, which is why families searching alone usually find only the seven larger communities.
- How far is Orange from Anaheim?
- About ten minutes from our office on South Harbor Boulevard, which is why we treat the two as one search area for most families.
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.
Sixty houses, almost none of them findable
Tell us what your mother needs and we will tell you which of Orange's small homes could take her this week, which we would rule out, and why. We will go and look at them with you.
Tell us who you are looking after
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