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Lomita, California · Los Angeles County
Caregiver Jobs in Lomita, CA
Lomita is a Los Angeles County city of 20,450 in ZIP code 90717, and its licensed care employers include two nursing homes, an adult day health center, hospice and home health offices and 13 small elder care homes. Requests from Lomita families appear above when they are posted.
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For a city of about 20,000, Lomita has a wide spread of places that hire caregivers. The CDPH listing dated October 16, 2026 shows two skilled nursing facilities on Lomita addresses, Lomita Post-Acute Care Center on Lomita Boulevard (71 beds) and Palos Verdes Health Care Center on Western Avenue (48 beds), as well as Family ADHC - Lomita, an adult day health center on Lomita Boulevard. Two home health agencies (Omega Home Health Care Services and Gandse Home Health Care) and two hospices (Salute Hospice and Everclear Hospice & Palliative Care) keep offices in town, and U.S. Renal Care runs a 21-station dialysis clinic. Community Care Licensing records from May 2025 add 13 licensed elder care homes with 83 places in all, nearly all of them six-bed homes, plus three home care organizations: A Better Solution In Home Care, Adept Touch In-Home Care Services and Right at Home.
The private side of the market is shaped by an older population. In the 2020–2024 American Community Survey, 18.1% of Lomita residents are 65 or older and 36.1% of households include at least one. Seven hundred and twenty-five older residents live alone. Residents come from many backgrounds: 34.4% are Hispanic or Latino, 17.2% Asian and 4.3% Japanese, and 39.2% of those five and up speak a language besides English at home, Spanish for 21.4%. Mention every language you speak. Lomita requests are listed above as families publish them.
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in Lomita
Requests to expect in Lomita: help on the days around the city's new senior classes, a ride and company on a $1 Dial-A-Ride trip to a Torrance or Harbor City medical office, care on dialysis days, evening and weekend relief for a spouse, and extra help while a parent is on hospice at home. With no certificate yet, a six-bed care home or a companion job is a realistic place to start; a CNA certificate opens the two nursing homes.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in Lomita: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA (Los Angeles and Orange 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, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA (Los Angeles and Orange counties) | $16.50 median ($17.25 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 385,530 jobs; concentration 2.22× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Los Angeles County | $19.64 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA (Los Angeles and Orange counties) | $22.78 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.
According to EDD estimates, about 3.4% of Lomita's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026. Los Angeles County averaged 5.4% and California 5.3% across those months, and Lomita's monthly rate stayed between 3.1% and 3.9% with an average labor force near 10,960. Care work pays by the hour, so these are the numbers to plan with: IHSS pays $19.64 an hour when the client lives in Lomita, and the Los Angeles County IHSS guide lays out how to become a provider.
Lomita has no entry in UC Berkeley's Labor Center inventory of local minimum wages (September 30, 2026), which leaves the state's $16.90 as the minimum when a Lomita household employs you. Working as a personal attendant, you are owed overtime once you pass nine hours in a day or 45 hours in a week. In ACS 2020–2024 the city's median household income is $93,810 and the median gross rent $1,961.
How to enroll as a provider in Los Angeles County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Los Angeles 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 Lomita
Lomita has no local caregiver license. If a family hires you directly for non-medical care, the state does not require one either. To work through A Better Solution, Adept Touch, Right at Home or another licensed home care organization, you must first register as a home care aide with CDSS ($35, plus Live Scan fingerprints). The nursing homes hire certified nursing assistants, and the home health agencies and hospices send aides into clients' homes; Harbor College's home health aide course prepares you for that state certificate. IHSS providers enroll with the county's Department of Public Social Services, attend an in-person orientation and pass a fingerprint-based criminal background check. California also requires paid caregivers to report suspected elder abuse. The requirements guide goes into each path.
Local resources
Training and career resources near Lomita
Training and job help that Lomita caregivers can use, read on the providers' own pages or in state licensing data in October 2026.
- Los Angeles Harbor College, CNA and home health aideTwo courses: NRS-HCA 399A (6 units) leads to the state CNA exam after a mandatory one-day orientation, and 399B (2 units) adds home health aide certification. For 2025–2026 a Rupe Foundation grant pays for students' books, uniforms and state exam fees. 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington; program office (310) 233-4368.
- Torrance One-Stop (South Bay Workforce Investment Board)The center the board assigns to Lomita, along with Torrance, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach. 1220 Engracia Ave., Torrance; (310) 680-3830.
- Lomita's six-bed elder care homesCDSS lists 13 licensed residential care homes for the elderly in Lomita, all but one with five or six beds and one with 12, and two more pending. Each one hires its own care staff.
- Lomita Post-Acute Care Center and Palos Verdes Health Care CenterCDPH lists the first at 1955 Lomita Boulevard (71 beds, (310) 325-1970) and the second at 26303 Western Avenue (48 beds, (310) 291-5173). Both are places to look for CNA work.
- Family ADHC - LomitaAn adult day health center licensed by CDPH at 2280 Lomita Boulevard, (310) 602-0123.
The area
Lomita in numbers
The Department of Finance put Lomita's population at 20,450 on January 1, 2026. ACS 2020–2024 counts 3,668 residents aged 65 or older (18.1%) and 284 aged 85 or older, with a median age of 39.5. Of 7,326 households, 2,644 have a member 65 or over. A quarter of older residents (25.7%) report a disability and 12.2% live below the poverty line. Only 179 people live in group quarters.
A little over half of households rent (54.1%). The average commute is 25.6 minutes; 73.3% of workers drive alone, 4.2% walk and 1.6% take transit. Education, health care and social assistance account for 21.5% of employed residents, a larger share than in Lawndale. CDSS also licenses six adult residential homes and an 18-place adult day program in the city, and CDPH lists a primary care clinic on Pacific Coast Highway. Nearby pages: Torrance, Carson, Redondo Beach, Gardena and Lawndale.
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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
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances (modified September 30, 2026)
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- CDSS, Home Care Aide registration process
- LA County DPSS, IHSS provider enrollment requirements
- Los Angeles Harbor College, Certified Nurse Assistant / Certified Home Health Aide
- South Bay Workforce Investment Board, One-Stop locations
- City of Lomita, Dial-A-Ride (Swipe Card) Program
- City of Lomita, Lomita CARES (Community Activities and Resources for Elders)
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05 and B26001, Lomita city
Questions
Caregiver jobs in Lomita: frequently asked questions
Is unemployment high in Lomita?
No. EDD's monthly estimates average 3.4% for Lomita from August 2025 to August 2026, well under the 5.4% county figure and California's 5.3%.
Which nursing homes in Lomita hire CNAs?
CDPH lists two: Lomita Post-Acute Care Center (71 beds) on Lomita Boulevard and Palos Verdes Health Care Center (48 beds) on Western Avenue. Check each one's postings for nursing assistant openings.
Are there hospice jobs in Lomita?
Two licensed hospices, Salute Hospice and Everclear Hospice & Palliative Care, have offices on Narbonne Avenue, and two home health agencies are based in the city. Ask each what certificate it wants for home visits.
What minimum wage applies to caregivers in Lomita?
The state rate of $16.90 an hour. UC Berkeley's inventory shows no Lomita ordinance, so nothing higher applies to a household employer inside the city.
How much do IHSS providers earn in Lomita?
$19.64 for each authorized hour, the rate Los Angeles County has paid since January 1, 2026.
Can I train as a CNA close to Lomita?
Los Angeles Harbor College in Wilmington runs a 6-unit nurse assistant course with a follow-on 2-unit home health aide course, and a foundation grant is covering books, uniforms and exam fees for 2025–2026 students.
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