Placentia, Orange County
Assisted living and care homes in Placentia
36
licensed care homes
Across 1 ZIP code.
34
are six-bed homes
Ordinary houses, almost none of them listed anywhere.
2
larger communities
The ones you have already found online.
550
licensed beds
An average of about 15 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.
Thirty-four houses in one postcode
It is unusual to find this many licensed care homes packed into one residential ZIP. Walk a few streets in 92870 and you will pass several without ever knowing: no signage, no listing, nothing to distinguish them from the houses either side.
For a family that is good news and bad news in one. Good, because the choice within a five minute radius is wider than almost anywhere else nearby, which makes visiting three in an afternoon genuinely possible. Bad, because a search engine will show you almost none of them.
What concentration does to availability
A dense cluster of small homes behaves differently from a city with a few large buildings. Beds come up one at a time and irregularly, so the answer to "is anything available" changes week to week. Families who ring round once and conclude there is nothing are usually just unlucky in their timing.
The two larger options
Placentia also has two sizeable communities, one of them licensed recently for over two hundred beds. If the person you are looking after wants company and a programme rather than a quiet house, those are the realistic choices inside the city, and Fullerton is fifteen minutes away with considerably more.
From the state register
Every licensed community of more than six beds in Placentia
Licence numbers included so you can look any of them up yourself rather than taking our word for it.
- Crescendo Senior Living351 East Palm Drive, Placentia 92870210 beds · licensed 2024
- Ivy Park at Bradford1180 N Bradford Ave, Placentia 92870136 beds · licensed 2022
The other 34 licensed homes in Placentia 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 Placentia, answered
- How many care homes are in Placentia?
- The state register lists 36 licensed residential care facilities in Placentia, with 550 licensed beds. Thirty-four of the 36 are licensed for six beds or fewer.
- Why are there so many small care homes in Placentia?
- The housing stock suits it. Single-storey suburban homes with flat approaches and gardens are close to ideal for a six-resident licensed home, and once a few operate successfully in an area others tend to follow.
- Can I just drive around and find them?
- No, and you should not try. They carry no signage by design, because they are somebody's home with five or six older residents living in it. The licensed list exists, but the addresses of small homes are not something we republish.
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.
Thirty-four houses, and beds come up one at a time
Availability here changes weekly, so a single round of calls tells you very little. We already know who has room. Tell us what she needs and we will tell you what is genuinely open.
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.