Caregiver Jobs in Lamont, CA
Lamont is an unincorporated community south-east of Bakersfield, home to about 13,200 people by the latest census estimate. Requests from families in ZIP 93241 show up above as they are posted, and a wider radius brings in the rest of the south valley.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Lamont
Lamont has no city hall. It is a census-designated place in Kern County, so the offices and buses a Lamont caregiver relies on belong to Kern County, Kern Transit or nonprofit clinics, never to a town government. The Census Bureau's ACS 2020–2024 estimate puts the population at 13,164 (with a margin of error of 1,203). The median resident is 31.6 years old, and 1,304 people, 9.9% of the total, are 65 or older, 136 of them past 85. Those numbers look small until you count homes: 1,019 of Lamont's 3,578 households, or 28.5%, include someone 65 or over, a slightly higher share than Kern County's 27.5%. Older people here mostly live with family. Only 112 households are a person aged 65 or more living alone.
That shapes the work. A Lamont job is more often a few hours a day helping an older relative inside a busy multigenerational household than a solo visit to someone isolated, often arranged by an adult child who leaves early for work. Language comes first in a profile here. ACS counts 82.5% of Lamont residents over age four using Spanish at home, and 45.7% who speak Spanish but have limited English. Say plainly how comfortable you are in each language, whether you drive, and which hours you can cover before 7 a.m. or after 5 p.m.
Families looking for private caregivers near Lamont, CA
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No family within 50 miles has an open posting today. Nearest current postings: Los Angeles, CA, about 91 miles away. A profile created now is visible to Kern County families as soon as they join, and they can send you a direct request.
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Types of caregiver jobs in Lamont
Expect requests for personal care and meals for a grandparent while the adults in the house work, rides to the clinic on Hall Road or to appointments in Bakersfield, short-term help after a hospital stay, and IHSS hours where a family member is already the provider and needs someone to share the load. Companionship and household help suit a newcomer; bathing, transfers and dementia care go to people who can describe having done them.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in Lamont: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Bakersfield–Delano, CA metro (Kern 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, Bakersfield–Delano, CA metro (Kern County) | $16.50 median ($16.92 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 17,270 jobs; concentration 1.84× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Kern County | $17.90 | CDSS; effective July 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.
Kern County projection: 14,340 aide jobs in 2023 to 19,940 in 2033 (+39.1%), about 30,570 openings over the decade including replacements (California EDD, 2023–2033 projections). Openings are not the same as net new jobs.
About 10.2% of Lamont's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. Kern County averaged 8.7% and California 5.3%. Because EDD derives figures for small unincorporated places such as Lamont from county totals, treat this one as approximate; its monthly values ran from 9.4% to 10.9% in a labor force of about 6,050. In a place where 46.4% of working residents are employed in agriculture and related industries (ACS), care work offers hours that do not follow the harvest, and Kern County IHSS pays $17.90 for each authorized hour since July 2026.
Household budgets are tight. ACS puts Lamont's median household income at $37,217, a little over half the county's $70,210, and 35.4% of residents live below the poverty line, so most private families will offer rates near the state minimum. As an unincorporated area Lamont has no local wage ordinance of its own (UC Berkeley's inventory lists none for it or for Kern County), so $16.90 is the legal floor. Settle overtime before you accept a long shift: state rules for personal attendants add half again to the hourly rate once a day's work exceeds nine hours or a week's exceeds 45.
How to enroll as a provider in Kern County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Kern 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.
Caregiver requirements in California, applied to Lamont
State rules apply unchanged in Lamont. No license is required when a Lamont household employs you itself for non-medical care; the state aide registry becomes compulsory only when an agency employs you, and optional otherwise. For IHSS, Kern County's enrollment runs online first, then fingerprints, then an in-person orientation at the session you book, to which you must bring your original signed Social Security card and a photo ID. The fingerprint step can be done in Lamont: the Attorney General lists Continental Multi-Services at 10910 Main Street, open weekdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 11 to 3 for walk-ins or appointments, with a $30 rolling fee; call (661) 845-4520. CNA certification through CDPH is needed for facility work and nursing tasks. State law treats paid caregivers of elders as mandated reporters of abuse. Statewide rules are in the requirements guide.
Training and career resources near Lamont
Lamont addresses and the south-valley links a caregiver will use, each read on the organization's own page in October 2026.
- Kern Transit Route 140, Lamont to Bakersfield NorthOn weekdays the route makes six runs north from Arvin through Lamont, stopping all along Main Street (including Hall Road and Segrue Road) before heading to Bakersfield College, the Richard Prado Senior Center, the Kern Medical Center emergency entrance and the GET downtown transit center. The first Lamont pick-up, at Buena Vista Boulevard and Main Street, is 6:05 a.m. Local fare $2.00, reduced $1.00 (schedule archived February 2026).
- Kern Transit Route 145, Lamont to Bakersfield SouthFive weekday runs leave the GET downtown transit center, the first at 6:40 a.m., and pass Valley Plaza, Walmart on Panama Lane and the McKee Road park-and-ride on the way to Main Street in Lamont (schedule archived January 2026).
- Clinica Sierra Vista, Lamont Community Health Center8787 Hall Road, (833) 678-2781, with a WIC office at the same address. Clinica Sierra Vista also lists an adult behavioral health center at 8933 Panama Road, Suite 101, and a children's behavioral health center at 10417 Main Street.
- Bakersfield College, Nurse Assistant Training ProgramClassroom and clinical training for the California Nurse Assistant Competency Exam; students pay for fees, a physical, immunizations and uniforms, and financial aid may be available. South Kern students (Arvin, Lamont, Job Spot) reach BC counseling on (661) 396-4992.
- Lamont Branch Library8304 Segrue Road, (661) 845-3471. Hours run 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Tuesday through Thursday, with earlier closing on Friday (6) and Saturday (4): a place to finish the online IHSS enrollment steps or print the Live Scan form if you have no printer.
- Kern County IHSS enrollment stepsThe county lists five steps: open an online provider account and view the required videos, complete Live Scan fingerprinting and pay its fee, attend the in-person orientation, hand in a SIP packet per client, which contains the W-4, the I-9 and form SOC 426A, then register in the state Electronic Services Portal for electronic timesheets and direct deposit (page archived June 2026).
Lamont in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 counts 94.3% of Lamont residents as Hispanic or Latino, and 43.0% were born outside the United States. Owners occupy just 47.9% of Lamont's occupied homes, median gross rent sits at $991 and owners put a median value of $220,700 on their homes, all well below county levels. Of the employed, 13.5% work in education, health care and social assistance, against 22.7% county-wide. Most workers drive alone (78.5%) on a 24.7-minute average commute, while 4.6% of homes lack a car. A third of Lamont residents aged 65 or more (33.4%) report a disability, and 13.2% of the civilian population has no health insurance.
The state health department's facility file, dated September 16, 2026, shows no hospital or nursing home with a Lamont address; besides the Clinica Sierra Vista center, it lists a Kern County Health Department clinic at 8301 Segrue Road. By the road-routing service OSRM, the Hall Road health center is 11.2 miles, about 18 minutes, from Kern Medical in Bakersfield, and 17.1 miles from Kern County Aging and Adult Services at 5357 Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield. For county programs, go to the Kern County page; nearby, see Arvin and Bakersfield.
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Caregiver jobs near Lamont
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Lamont is part of Kern County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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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
- California EDD, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS), 12-month average August 2025 to August 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Lamont CDP
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Kern County
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Bakersfield-Delano, CA (31-1120)
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Kern County
- Kern County Adult Protective Services and Aging and Adult Services address (archived July 18, 2026)
- Kern County Aging and Adult Services, Become a Provider (archived June 8, 2026)
- Kern Transit, Route 140 (archived February 13, 2026)
- Kern Transit, Route 145 (archived January 25, 2026)
- Clinica Sierra Vista, locations
- Bakersfield College, Nurse Assistant Training Program
- Bakersfield College, Delano Campus and rural counseling lines
- Kern County Library, hours and locations
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date September 16, 2026)
- OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap (road distances)
Caregiver jobs in Lamont: frequently asked questions
Can I get my IHSS fingerprints done in Lamont?
Yes. Continental Multi-Services, a Main Street business listed by the Attorney General for Live Scan, accepts walk-ins and appointments six days a week, and charges $30 plus any agency fee. Bring the Live Scan form you print from the county's enrollment site.
Is there a bus from Lamont to the county offices in Bakersfield?
Route 140 runs from Main Street to the GET downtown transit center six times each weekday, on one timetable for Monday to Thursday and another for Friday, and Route 145 runs between downtown and Lamont on weekdays. If your IHSS orientation is in the city, check the return times against the session length before you book it.
What does IHSS pay a provider who lives in Lamont?
Lamont is in Kern County, so the rate is Kern's: $17.90 an hour since July 1, 2026, for every hour the county authorizes for your client. It is the same in Arvin, Delano or Bakersfield.
Are there nursing homes or assisted living in Lamont where I could get experience?
Not by address. CDPH's September 2026 listing shows no nursing facility in Lamont, and the CDSS May 2025 licensing files show no elder care home there. Facility experience for a Lamont resident usually means a job in Arvin or Bakersfield.
How do Lamont families reach me here?
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