Earlimart, California · Tulare County

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Earlimart is an unincorporated farm town in southern Tulare County where Spanish is the everyday language of most homes and 26.7% of households have a member aged 65 or over. New Earlimart-area requests appear on this page as families post them, and building a profile costs nothing.

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Earlimart is a census-designated place with no city hall: Tulare County governs it, and the county's own planning record for the community plan update places it on the Highway 99 corridor. On East Washington Avenue you will find the United Health Centers clinic at number 476, the Earlimart Senior Center at 712 and the county library branch at 780. Everything else is a drive: Adventist Health Delano Medical Center, across the line in Kern County, is 10.0 road miles from the middle of Earlimart, while Adventist Health Tulare is 24.0 miles north and the county IHSS office in Visalia is 30.7 miles away (OSRM routing).

So the useful profile for Earlimart work says three things up front: that you speak Spanish (82.1% of residents five and older use it at home, and well over half are not fully fluent in English), whether you have a car for the Delano and Tulare runs, and which mornings you can start early. Earlimart also has a Filipino community, 9.0% of residents in the ACS 2020–2024 estimates, so Tagalog or Ilocano is worth listing if you speak either. Set a radius that takes in Pixley, Delano and Tulare; requests from those towns show up in the list on this page whenever a family posts one.

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Types of caregiver jobs

Types of caregiver jobs in Earlimart

Requests here tend to be practical: someone to stay with a grandparent while the adults of a large household are at work (the average Earlimart household holds 4.04 people), help after a stay at the Delano hospital, rides to clinic appointments, and meal and medication reminders for an older woman living alone. A newer caregiver usually starts with companionship and errands and moves into personal care once a family knows them.

Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time

Pay

Caregiver pay in Earlimart: how much caregivers make

Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Visalia, CA metro (Tulare 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, Visalia, CA metro (Tulare County)	$16.50 median ($16.89 mean)	BLS OEWS, May 2025; 8,220 jobs; concentration 1.73× national
IHSS provider wage, Tulare County	$17.50	CDSS; effective January 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.

Tulare County projection: 8,290 aide jobs in 2023 to 10,510 in 2033 (+26.8%), about 15,910 openings over the decade including replacements (California EDD, 2023–2033 projections). Openings are not the same as net new jobs.

About 28.0% of Earlimart's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates, against 10.5% for Tulare County and 5.3% for California; EDD estimates small places like this one from county totals, so treat the town figure as approximate. Half of employed residents (49.4%) work in agriculture, and the median household income is $52,881 (ACS 2020–2024). In a town where seasonal field work is the main alternative, the steady hours that come with IHSS are often the most dependable caregiving income available. The wage follows the client's county, not yours: a client in Earlimart is paid at Tulare County's $17.50, while a client across the line in Delano is paid at Kern County's $17.90. No local minimum-wage ordinance covers unincorporated Tulare County, so the state $16.90 applies to private work. The Tulare County IHSS guide walks through enrollment.

How to enroll as a provider in Tulare County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Tulare 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 Earlimart

Because Earlimart is unincorporated, there is no town license or local rule; state law and Tulare County administration are the whole picture. No license is needed when an Earlimart family pays you itself for non-medical help. To work for an agency you must first be entered in California's Home Care Aide Registry; independents may register by choice. To be paid through IHSS, you enroll with Tulare County Health and Human Services at 4025 W. Noble Avenue, Suite A, Visalia, (559) 623-0600 or 1-800-571-9555, open Monday to Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday mornings; new providers complete the state orientation and a fingerprint check. Paid caregivers of older adults must report suspected abuse (Welfare and Institutions Code §15630); Tulare County Adult Protective Services takes reports at (877) 657-3092. The requirements guide has the details.

Local resources

Training and career resources near Earlimart

What sits on East Washington Avenue first, then the county services in Tulare and Visalia that an Earlimart caregiver will use.

United Health Centers, Earlimart health center476 East Washington Avenue, 800-492-4227. Medical, dental, pharmacy, behavioral health, podiatry, laboratory and enrollment services, with free transportation for patients. Open until 8 p.m. on Mondays and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday; closed weekends.
Earlimart Senior Center712 E. Washington, (661) 849-2232. A Kings/Tulare Area Agency on Aging nutrition site, open weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with lunch at noon (listing archived March 2025).
College of the Sequoias, CNA course (NURS 260)NURS 260 is one course; passing it qualifies you to sit the California nursing-assistant exam. The Tulare College Center, 4999 East Bardsley Avenue, (559) 688-3000, is 30.0 road miles from Earlimart.
Tulare Employment Connection Center155 N. "K" Street, Tulare, (559) 684-1987, weekdays 8 to 5. Job search help and training referrals; through CSET it also runs the Senior Employment and Training program for job seekers 55 and over.
Earlimart Branch Library780 E. Washington Avenue, (661) 849-2525; Tuesday to Friday 10 to 1 and 2 to 6. Public computers for online IHSS and CalJOBS steps.
RIDE Tulare County On-Demand, Zone 4Shared rides booked in the RIDE TC app or on (559) 372-2290. Zone 4 links Earlimart with Pixley, Tipton, Alpaugh, Allensworth, Richgrove, Waukena and the city of Tulare; Monday to Saturday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday 8 to 5. $5.00 a trip; RIDE offers a $3.00 reduced fare with verification, though not in every zone.

The area

Earlimart in numbers

The ACS 2020–2024 estimates count 7,214 people in Earlimart CDP, with a median age of 26.8. Only 9.6% are 65 or older (695 people, 149 of them 85 or older), yet 26.7% of households include someone in that age group, because older relatives here usually live inside large family households rather than alone. Among residents 65 and older, 44.6% report a disability and 33.8% live below the poverty line. Nearly nine in ten residents (88.9%) are Hispanic or Latino, 44.5% were born abroad, and 74.3% have public health coverage, which is why Medi-Cal and IHSS shape so much of the care here.

The Delano page covers the Kern County side, the Tipton page the next community in the same RIDE zone, and the Tulare County page the county-wide figures.

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Caregiver jobs near Earlimart

Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.

Earlimart is part of Tulare County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.

Elsewhere in Tulare County: Visalia · Dinuba · Exeter · Farmersville · Woodlake · Cutler

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

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Questions

Caregiver jobs in Earlimart: frequently asked questions

Why is IHSS such a large part of caregiving work in Earlimart?

EDD estimates put Earlimart's unemployment at about 28% over the last year, and three in four residents have public health coverage. When an older relative on Medi-Cal qualifies, Tulare County pays the chosen provider $17.50 an hour for the authorized hours, and that provider can be a family member.

Where do I sign up as an IHSS provider if I live in Earlimart?

At the Tulare County HHSA office, 4025 W. Noble Avenue, Suite A, in Visalia, about 31 road miles away. Call (559) 623-0600 first; the office closes at noon on Fridays.

Which hospital will my Earlimart clients use?

Most often Adventist Health Delano Medical Center at 1401 Garces Highway, a 156-bed hospital open 24 hours with emergency care, about ten road miles south in Kern County. Adventist Health Tulare is the Tulare County alternative, 24 miles north.

Do I need Spanish to work in Earlimart?

For most households, yes. Over 82% of residents speak Spanish at home. A minority of families speak Tagalog or another Filipino language, so say so on your profile if you do.

Can I get around Earlimart without a car?

Partly. RIDE Tulare County On-Demand Zone 4 covers Earlimart, Pixley, Tipton and Tulare seven days a week for $5.00 a ride. It does not cross into Kern County, so the Delano hospital still needs a car.

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