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Mobility & exercise support caregiver needed in Hemet, CA
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Calimesa, California · Riverside County
Caregiver Jobs in Calimesa, CA
Calimesa is a Riverside County city of 10,942 people, and 20.8% of its residents have reached 65. Home care requests posted under ZIP 92320 appear above as families publish them, whether the client is private pay or on IHSS.
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Calimesa incorporated in 1990 and marked its 35th year as a city in 2025. It is a small, owner-occupied place with an older population: the ACS 2020–2024 puts 2,267 residents at 65 or above, 42.2% of households include someone that age, and 644 older people keep house alone. About a quarter of all housing units are mobile homes, so a good share of clients live in one; ask about steps, ramps and the bathroom layout on the first call. The median age is 40.0, and the paid work that follows is mostly private: personal care, meals, medication reminders, transportation and company for people who intend to stay at home.
Calimesa is on the edge of Riverside County, next to San Bernardino County, and that shapes your pay more than anything else. A Calimesa client is a Riverside County client, which means $19.90 an hour under IHSS, while a client in Yucaipa, on the San Bernardino County side, is paid at that county's $19.00. When a family contacts you, confirm the county on the client's address before you discuss the rate, and list both Calimesa and Yucaipa in your travel area if you work on each side.
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Families looking for private caregivers near Calimesa, CA
Real postings from families on CaregiverConnect, matched to Calimesa by distance. 5 caregivers within 50 miles already have profiles here.
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Meal preparation & homemaking caregiver needed in Hemet, CA
$25.00/hr offeredPosted Oct 18, 2026
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Mobility assistance caregiver needed in Hemet, CA
$30.00/hr offeredPosted Oct 18, 2026
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Overnight care caregiver needed in Hemet, CA
$30.00/hr offeredPosted Oct 18, 2026
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Personal care caregiver needed in Fullerton, CA
$20.00/hr offeredPosted Sep 30, 2026
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in Calimesa
Local requests tend to come from spouses who need relief and from adult children living elsewhere who want someone checking in several times a week. Expect help with bathing and dressing, light housekeeping, cooking, rides to appointments and the pharmacy, and supervision for clients with memory loss. More than a third of older Calimesa residents (38.4%) report a disability, so transfer and fall-prevention experience is worth stating in your profile. Without paid experience, a few weekly hours of companionship, driving to the senior center or errands for one client is a realistic start.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in Calimesa: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA metro (Riverside and San Bernardino counties); 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, Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA metro (Riverside and San Bernardino counties) | $16.50 median | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 102,760 jobs; concentration 2.16× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Riverside County | $19.90 | CDSS; effective May 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
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.
Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino counties) projection: 94,950 aide jobs in 2023 to 126,020 in 2033 (+32.7%), about 191,990 openings over the decade including replacements (California EDD, 2023–2033 projections published April 2026). Openings are not the same as net new jobs.
About 1.1% of Calimesa's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. The Riverside County average for that period was 5.5%; California's was 5.3%. EDD estimates city figures from county data. For caregivers, the number that matters is the hourly rate: Riverside County IHSS providers have earned $19.90 since May 1, 2026, well over both the $16.50 the region's aides earn at the median and California's $16.90 floor. The UC Berkeley Labor Center lists no city or county wage ordinance in Riverside County, which makes the state wage the floor for private and agency work in Calimesa. How to enroll as a provider is covered in the Riverside County IHSS guide.
How to enroll as a provider in Riverside County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Riverside County 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 Calimesa
Families in Calimesa may hire you directly for non-medical care, and for that the state requires no license. Working for a home care organization is different: CDSS insists that every aide such an agency places in a home be registered on its Home Care Aide Registry, and the May 2025 licensing file lists no licensed agency based in 92320, so agency employers will be out of town. IHSS providers for Calimesa clients enroll with Riverside County by calling the county's IHSS HOME line during weekday business hours. A CDPH certificate is needed only for nursing-facility, hospital or home health agency work. More detail is in California caregiver requirements.
Local resources
Training and career resources near Calimesa
Places in and around Calimesa where a caregiver can train, find work or meet clients, each checked against the sources listed below.
- CRY-ROP nursing assistant programsThe Colton-Redlands-Yucaipa Regional Occupational Program counts Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified among its three partner districts. At its Redlands campus, 1214 Indiana Court, the evening CNA class takes five months of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights (4 to 8) and six all-day Saturdays; the next session runs February 2 to May 27, 2027, for $3,150 including state test fees. Certified aides can add a two-week Acute Care course ($1,453), taught partly at Loma Linda University Hospital, for hospital jobs.
- Norton Younglove Multipurpose Senior Center908 Park Avenue, 909-795-2287; doors open at 8:30 a.m. on weekdays, closing at 4 Monday through Thursday and at 1 on Friday. The city center hosts Family Service Association's weekday lunch and a calendar of free classes, which makes it a natural meeting point with clients who still get out.
- Licensed care homes in 92320Four licensed elder care homes with 20 beds in total appear for Calimesa in the May 2025 CDSS file (Hillcrest Cottage, Hillsong Senior Living and Calimesa Home Care among them) and two four-bed adult residential facilities, Mesa Pointe Home and Parkview Residential Care. These small homes are the city's facility employers for aides.
- Bryant HouseAt 906 Bryant Street, CDPH licenses this six-bed ICF-DD home, a residence for adults with developmental disabilities, run by Jonbec Care. It is the only CDPH-licensed health facility with a Calimesa address; CDPH shows no Calimesa hospital, nursing facility, hospice or home health office.
- Omnitrans Route 319A weekday loop serving Yucaipa and Calimesa, with buses every 60 minutes, useful if you do not drive or your client needs a bus for errands.
- Riverside County IHSS HOME lineOne number, (888) 960-4477, handles enrollment whether you will work for a client who chose you or want the Public Authority registry to match you with one.
The area
Calimesa in numbers
The Department of Finance estimated 10,942 residents on January 1, 2026, down from 11,029 a year earlier. In the ACS 2020–2024 figures, just 36 people live in group quarters, 20.8% of residents are 65 or older, 820 are between 75 and 84 and 230 are 85 or older. Homeownership is 89.3%, the median home value is $446,300 and 26.6% of housing units are mobile homes. Median household income is $87,181, 39.6% of households receive Social Security and the poverty rate is 5.3%. About one in eight residents (12.8%) speaks Spanish at home. The average one-way commute is 35.8 minutes, which leaves plenty of working families out of the house all day.
Nearby pages: Yucaipa and Redlands in San Bernardino County, and Beaumont and Banning in Riverside County. The Riverside County page lists county-wide training and services.
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Caregiver jobs near Calimesa
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Calimesa is part of Riverside County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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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
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates, January 1, 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 data profiles DP02–DP05 and B26001, Calimesa city
- City of Calimesa, About Calimesa (35 years, 1990–2025)
- City of Calimesa, Senior Center
- Omnitrans, Route 319
- CDPH, licensed and certified healthcare facility locations (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- CRY-ROP, district partners
- CRY-ROP, Certified Nursing Assistant - Night
- CRY-ROP, Certified Nursing Assistant - Acute Care
- Riverside County DPSS, IHSS HOME line and caregiver enrollment
- CDSS, Home Care Services and the Home Care Aide Registry
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (31-1120)
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county (IP Effective 10-1-2026 sheet)
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
Questions
Caregiver jobs in Calimesa: frequently asked questions
Is unemployment high in Calimesa?
No. EDD publishes a 12-month average of 1.1% for Calimesa through August 2026; the Riverside County figure is 5.5% and the statewide one 5.3%. EDD estimates city figures from county data.
Why does IHSS pay more in Calimesa than in Yucaipa?
IHSS wages are set county by county. Calimesa is in Riverside County, where CDSS lists $19.90 an hour from May 1, 2026; Yucaipa is in San Bernardino County, at $19.00. The client's home address decides which applies.
Are there nursing homes or a hospital in Calimesa?
Not according to CDPH, whose only Calimesa listing is a six-bed home for people with developmental disabilities. Local facility work is in the small licensed care homes; certified nursing jobs mean commuting.
Which CNA program serves Calimesa students?
CRY-ROP, which serves the Yucaipa-Calimesa school district, runs day and evening CNA classes at its Redlands campus. Riverside County's community colleges are listed on the county page.
Do many Calimesa clients live in mobile homes?
Quite a few. The ACS counts 26.6% of Calimesa housing units as mobile homes. If you know safe transfers in tight spaces, say so in your profile.
How will Calimesa families find my profile?
Through the Calimesa family page, which lists caregivers whose travel radius includes 92320. Add Yucaipa and Beaumont to your radius if you are willing to drive there.
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