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Bonita, California · San Diego County
Caregiver Jobs in Bonita, CA
Bonita, CA, an unincorporated community of San Diego County, has a quarter of its residents aged 65 or over; the postings above update as families publish them.
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Bonita in San Diego County is a census-designated place without a city government, so county departments and special districts run its public services, and land-use advice to the county comes from the elected Sweetwater Community Planning Group, which meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Bonita Sunnyside Fire Station, 4900 Bonita Road. For a caregiver that means there is no city senior office and no city wage law to look up: the people who hire you here are families, small licensed homes and agencies. Enter 91902 in your profile with a travel radius you will really drive.
Paid care in 91902 happens at small sites. The May 2025 CDSS licensing file shows six elder care homes (RCFEs) holding licenses in the ZIP, each for six residents, and a seventh application still pending. CDPH's October 2026 facility list adds Bonitaview Home, a hospice facility with six beds on Valley Vista Road, and shows no skilled nursing facility, home health agency or hospital in the ZIP. In practice most Bonita jobs are one caregiver with one or a handful of people: a shift in a six-bed home, end-of-life care, or a private client in a family house. Profiles that put hospice, dementia or overnight experience in the opening lines fit that work best.
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Families looking for private caregivers near Bonita, CA
Real postings from families on CaregiverConnect, matched to Bonita by distance. 50 caregivers within 50 miles already have profiles here.
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Personal care caregiver needed in San Diego, CA
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Personal care caregiver needed in San Diego, CA
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Personal care caregiver needed in Santee, CA
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Dementia care caregiver needed in San Diego, CA
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Meal preparation & homemaking caregiver needed in Poway, CA
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in Bonita
ACS 2020–2024 counts some 738 Bonita householders 65 and up living alone, 581 of them women, and 758 residents aged 85 or older (that last estimate is loose, ±344). Families with a parent like that tend to ask first for bathing and dressing help, cooking, medication reminders and drives, then for overnight cover as needs grow. Without paid experience, companionship visits, shopping trips and tidying make reasonable first jobs, and the six-bed homes and two adult day programs licensed in 91902 are worth a call about entry-level shifts.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in Bonita: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA metro (San Diego County); private rates on CaregiverConnect are agreed between each caregiver and family and are not tracked by any agency.
| Measure | Hourly | Source and coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Home health and personal care aides, San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA metro (San Diego County) | $16.97 median ($17.71 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 57,080 jobs; concentration 1.34× national |
| IHSS provider wage, San Diego County | $20.40 | CDSS; effective March 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, San Diego–Chula Vista–Carlsbad, CA metro (San Diego County) | $23.11 median | BLS OEWS, May 2025 (certified roles, for comparison) |
Who is the employer. A family that hires you directly is your employer under California's Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. The state minimum wage ($16.90 an hour from 1 January 2026; some cities set more, for example $17.75 in the City of San Diego) is the legal floor, and a personal attendant earns overtime at 1.5× after 9 hours in a day or 45 in a week. The main exceptions are IHSS recipients and an employer's own parent, spouse or child. Source: California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ.
About 3.6% of Bonita's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. That is below San Diego County's 4.6% and California's 5.3%. Month to month the estimate moved between 3.1% and 4.0%, on an average labor force of about 5,750. EDD models census-designated places such as Bonita from county totals, which makes this an approximation. For your pay, the key fact is that Bonita lies outside the City of San Diego: that city's $17.75 minimum does not apply, and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, tracking local wage ordinances statewide, records none covering Bonita or other unincorporated county land, so $16.90, California's statewide figure, stays the lowest lawful hourly pay for private and agency shifts in Bonita. An IHSS provider whose client lives in Bonita earns the county rate of $20.40, explained in the San Diego IHSS guide. Certified nursing assistants in the San Diego metro earn a $23.11 median in BLS's May 2025 figures, against $16.97 for aides doing home health and personal care, a gap that explains why many caregivers here eventually certify.
How to enroll as a provider in San Diego County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS San Diego guide. IHSS wages for every county we cover, with effective dates, are in the IHSS pay by county guide.
How the public numbers relate to private rates, and what affects them, is covered in the caregiver pay guide.
Rules
Caregiver requirements in California, applied to Bonita
Bonita adds nothing to California's rules. Working directly for a Bonita household on non-medical tasks takes no state license. The two home care organizations CDSS licenses at Bonita addresses, St Lidwina Home Care and Vintage Home Care, must enter each aide on California's Home Care Aide Registry, a public list of background-checked aides, before sending them to clients. CNA certification is issued by CDPH after an approved course and exam, and CDPH's online lookup shows whether a certificate is active. IHSS pay requires enrollment with the county's IHSS Public Authority, which acts as legal employer for over 44,000 providers across San Diego County. Paid caregivers are mandated reporters: the statewide line, 1-833-401-0832, connects you around the clock to the APS office for the ZIP code you key in. Details are in the California requirements guide.
Local resources
Training and career resources near Bonita
Employers, courses and transit that touch Bonita, each checked against a source listed below.
- Licensed elder care homes in 91902Six homes, each licensed for six residents: A Winsome Assisted Living Community on Sweetwater Road, Bonita Guest Home on Sunny View Drive, Sarasona Home Care on Sarasona Way, Serene Richview on Calle Mesita, Vintage Residential 1 on Crestview Drive and Warm Heart Senior Living on Allen School Lane. Graceful Cottage Living on Bonita Woods Drive was pending a license in the May 2025 file.
- Bonitaview Home (hospice facility)CDPH lists this six-bed hospice facility at 3850 Valley Vista Road as active.
- Home care organizations based in BonitaSt Lidwina Home Care on Bonita Canyon Drive and Vintage Home Care on Crestview Drive hold CDSS home care licenses. Ask either about part-time aide openings; you will need a registry listing before your first client.
- Adult day programs and adult residential homesCDSS licenses two adult day programs in Bonita, the larger being Living for Today on El Rancho Grande (capacity 50), plus eight small adult residential facilities and one home for adults with special health care needs. Each employs direct-care staff.
- Sweetwater District Adult Education, Certified Nurse AssistantRegistration is free; students pay for burgundy scrubs and any certification and fingerprinting fees. CNA places go to students who finish the Health Care Essentials prerequisite (now registering for spring 2027), and the course includes clinical practice in a skilled nursing facility. Many of the division's courses are articulated with Southwestern College.
- MTS Route 705Runs between the E Street Transit Center and Southwestern College by way of Plaza Bonita, with Bonita Centre among its listed destinations; no Sunday service (timetable effective June 30, 2023). MTS trip planning: 619-233-3004.
The area
Bonita in numbers
The ACS 2020–2024 estimates 12,652 residents in Bonita CDP (±1,680), with a median age of 44.1. Some 3,158 of them (25.0%) are 65 or older, including 742 aged 75 to 84. Of the 4,433 households, 47.6% include someone 65 or older, and 24.0% of noninstitutionalized residents 65 and over report a disability. 48.6% of Bonita residents are Hispanic or Latino and 10.2% identify as Filipino; Spanish is spoken at home by 30.6% of those five or older with 6.5% speaking an Asian or Pacific Islander language, while 1,553 speak English less than "very well". Owners occupy three homes in four, with a median value of $962,800; median gross rent is $2,218, median household income is $118,674 and the average commute takes 23.9 minutes.
With Spanish spoken in so many homes, list every language you speak. With no hospital or nursing facility inside 91902, a parent coming home after a hospital or rehab stay elsewhere often needs a few weeks of help back at home. For more postings, see Chula Vista, National City and Spring Valley, the South Bay page or the San Diego County page.
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Caregiver jobs near Bonita
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Guides
Useful reading
How to become a caregiver in California: requirements, HCA registry, IHSS and CNA explained · How much do caregivers make in California and Arizona? BLS, IHSS and minimum wage (2026) · Private caregiver jobs near you: how to find them without an agency · Caregiver interview preparation: questions families ask and how to answer them
Sources (checked 2026-10-20):
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 data profiles DP02–DP05, Bonita CDP
- CDPH, licensed and certified healthcare facility locations (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing facility files: RCFE, adult residential and day programs, home care organizations (file date May 25, 2025)
- County of San Diego PDS, Sweetwater Community Planning Group fact sheet
- Sweetwater Union High School District, Division of Adult Education: Certified Nurse Assistant
- Sweetwater Union High School District, Division of Adult Education: Health Care Essentials
- MTS, Route 705 timetable
- BLS OEWS May 2025, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA (31-1120, 31-1131)
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county (IP Effective 10-1-2026 sheet)
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- San Diego County IHSS Public Authority, about
- CDSS, Home Care Services and the Home Care Aide Registry
- CDPH, Certified Nurse Assistant program (certificate verification)
- CDSS, Adult Protective Services
Questions
Caregiver jobs in Bonita: frequently asked questions
Is Bonita part of Chula Vista or San Diego?
Neither. Bonita is an unincorporated census-designated place governed by San Diego County, with no city council of its own. The elected Sweetwater Community Planning Group advises the county on land use and meets at the Bonita Sunnyside Fire Station.
Are there nursing home jobs in Bonita?
Not in 91902: the October 2026 CDPH list shows no skilled nursing facility there. Facility work in the ZIP is in six small licensed elder care homes, a six-bed hospice facility, adult day programs and adult residential homes.
Is unemployment high in Bonita?
No. EDD's modeled estimate averages 3.6% for August 2025 to August 2026, under San Diego County's 4.6% and the statewide 5.3%. Because it is derived from county data, treat it as a rough guide.
What is the lowest legal caregiver wage in Bonita?
$16.90 an hour, the state rate since January 1, 2026. The $17.75 minimum set by the City of San Diego ends at that city's boundary, and the Labor Center lists no ordinance for unincorporated county land. IHSS pays $20.40 for a San Diego County client.
How can I start CNA training from Bonita?
Sweetwater District Adult Education offers a free-registration CNA course, but places go to students who first finish its Health Care Essentials class, which is registering for spring 2027. You pay for scrubs, fingerprinting and the certification fees.
How do Bonita families find me?
Families post needs on the Bonita family page. When 91902 sits inside the radius in your profile, those posts reach you.
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