Golden hills and oaks with houses tucked into the slope

Yorba Linda, Orange County

Assisted living and care homes in Yorba Linda

Yorba Linda licenses 35 care homes and 547 beds. For families in Anaheim Hills — where the state licenses only ten homes against the oldest population in Anaheim — this is almost always the next place we look.

35

licensed care homes

Across 2 ZIP codes.

31

are six-bed homes

Ordinary houses, almost none of them listed anywhere.

4

larger communities

The ones you have already found online.

547

licensed beds

An average of about 16 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 natural extension of the hill

Anaheim Hills has a supply problem. Nearly one in five residents of 92807 is over sixty-five, the highest share in Anaheim, and the state licenses only ten care homes across both Hills ZIP codes. When nothing is open up there, Yorba Linda is the obvious second search: it shares the same corridor, the same roads, and for most families the same Sunday drive.

It is also a close match in character. Four of its 35 homes are larger communities, including a memory care building and a long-established retirement community licensed since the 1990s. The other 31 are six-bed houses.

Do not let the postcode make the decision

The thing families resist here is widening the radius, because staying in the neighbourhood feels like keeping a promise. It is worth saying plainly: a home ten minutes further away that actually suits her is worth more than a home on the hill that does not. Moving somebody twice is the outcome to avoid, and that is what a too-narrow search usually produces.

Memory care specifically

Yorba Linda has a dedicated memory care community of around eighty beds, which is relevant because the Hills has nothing comparable. If dementia is the reason you are searching, the realistic options widen considerably the moment you include this city.

From the state register

Every licensed community of more than six beds in Yorba Linda

Licence numbers included so you can look any of them up yourself rather than taking our word for it.

  • Bayshire Yorba Linda17803 Imperial Hwy, Yorba Linda 92886
    114 beds · licensed 2024
  • Sunrise at Yorba Linda4792 Lakeview Ave, Yorba Linda 92886
    93 beds · licensed 2004
  • Activcare at Yorba Linda4725 Valley View Ave, Yorba Linda 92886
    80 beds · licensed 2017
  • Senior Living Community for the Eastern Star in Ca16850 E. Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda 92886
    76 beds · licensed 1998

The other 31 licensed homes in Yorba Linda 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 Yorba Linda, answered

How many care homes are in Yorba Linda?
The state register lists 35 licensed residential care facilities in Yorba Linda, with 547 licensed beds. Thirty-one are six-bed homes and four are larger communities.
We live in Anaheim Hills. Should we look in Yorba Linda?
Usually yes. The Hills has the oldest population in Anaheim and only ten licensed homes across both its ZIP codes, so availability is the binding constraint. Yorba Linda shares the same corridor and roughly triples the options.
Is there memory care in Yorba Linda?
There is a dedicated memory care community of around eighty beds, plus small homes that take residents with dementia. Worth knowing that California has no separate memory care licence, so the word on a brochure tells you nothing on its own.

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.

If nothing is open on the hill

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