Caregiver Jobs in McFarland, CA
McFarland is a small Kern County city of 14,334 residents (state estimate, January 2026) on Kern Transit's Delano–Bakersfield bus line. Posts from families in ZIP 93250 appear above when they are published; widen your radius to take in requests from the neighboring towns.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in McFarland
The city's own history page says McFarland was founded in 1909, incorporated in the summer of 1957, and was split into an east side and a west side when Highway 99 was built through it in 1950. It is a young city. In ACS 2020–2024 the median resident is 26.3 years old, 60.3% of households have children under 18, and 1,028 residents (7.2%) are 65 or older, 123 of them 85 or more. Still, 815 households, close to one in four, include someone 65 or over, and 199 are an older person living alone, most of them women (138). The census count of people in group quarters is small (343), so these age figures describe the city's households.
Care work here is close to home. Most requests will come from a family member arranging a few hours of help for a parent or grandparent on the same block, or from a household already using IHSS. In a profile, say which side of the freeway you live on if you walk, whether you drive, and how well you speak Spanish: 70.5% of McFarland residents past age four speak it at home, and 35.3% speak Spanish with limited English. The city's monthly senior gatherings at Veterans Hall are run in that spirit, with bingo and lotería on the second Tuesday.
Families looking for private caregivers near McFarland, CA
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No family within 50 miles has an open posting today. Nearest current postings: Los Angeles, CA, about 125 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 McFarland
Likely posts: morning help with bathing and breakfast for an older parent, rides to one of McFarland's clinics or to Delano, respite for a daughter who is the IHSS provider, and evening company. Six-bed and four-bed homes for adults with developmental disabilities also operate in the city (see below), and experience supporting a client with a disability is worth naming in a profile. Companionship and errands suit someone new to caregiving.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in McFarland: 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 8.1% of McFarland's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. That is a little below Kern County's 8.7% but well above California's 5.3%; McFarland's monthly figure ranged from 7.5% to 8.7% in a labor force near 6,150. With 37.3% of employed residents in agriculture and related industries (ACS), a care job that runs all year is a real alternative to seasonal work, and an IHSS provider in Kern earns $17.90 an hour; the Kern County IHSS guide explains how hours are authorized.
McFarland's ACS median household income is $54,608 against Kern's $70,210, and 24.1% of residents are below the poverty line, so expect private offers close to the minimum. UC Berkeley's inventory has no McFarland ordinance, which leaves the state's $16.90 as the minimum hourly wage here. Personal attendants are owed overtime pay beyond nine hours in a shift or 45 in a week, so put any long days in writing first.
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 McFarland
California's rules apply as written. Working directly for a McFarland household on non-medical tasks requires no license; registry enrollment becomes a duty only for agency staff. IHSS enrollment for Kern County starts online and includes a Live Scan fingerprint check you pay for and an in-person orientation at a session you book; the county's Aging and Adult Services office, at 5357 Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield, is about 26 road miles from McFarland by OSRM routing. For fingerprints you will leave town: of the Kern sites on the Attorney General's Live Scan list, one is in Delano and one in Wasco, and none in McFarland. If you are already a provider, the county's Aging and Adult Services staff hold an information session at Veterans Hall on the third Thursday of each month that covers IHSS referrals. A CDPH CNA certificate is needed for nursing tasks and facility jobs, and anyone paid to care for an elder has a legal duty to report suspected abuse. See the requirements guide for the state detail.
Training and career resources near McFarland
McFarland employers, training links and transport, each read on the source's own page in October 2026.
- Positive Directions homes in McFarlandCDPH lists two six-bed intermediate care facilities for people with developmental disabilities run by Positive Directions, Inc., at 816 3rd Street and 1031 Kala Loop, and CDSS licenses a four-bed adult residential home of the same name on Mast. Direct support experience with adults with disabilities transfers well to private care.
- Bakersfield College Delano CampusIts staff provide access to BC courses in McFarland, Wasco, Shafter and Arvin. Delano and McFarland students book counseling on (661) 720-2000, the first step toward BC's Nurse Assistant Training Program and its Home Health Aide course for CNAs.
- Kern Transit Route 110The Delano–Bakersfield route stops at the McFarland Community Center. In the most recent schedule archived (May 2025), five weekday buses left McFarland for Wasco, Shafter and Bakersfield, the first at 6:09 a.m., and six ran north to Delano; weekends had three each way. Intercommunity fare $3.00, reduced $1.50.
- McFarland City Transit (Dial-A-Ride)The city runs free local transportation. Book a ride on (661) 792-3092 or (661) 543-8665.
- McFarland Branch Library500 West Kern Avenue, (661) 792-2318, open Tuesday through Saturday with evenings until 7 midweek. Use its computers for the online IHSS enrollment and to print the Live Scan request form.
- Kern County IHSS provider enrollmentFive steps: an online account and videos, Live Scan, the in-person orientation (original signed Social Security card and photo ID, names matching exactly), the SIP packet for each client, and a state portal account for e-timesheets. Enrollment questions: (661) 868-0987 (page archived June 2026).
McFarland in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 finds McFarland 87.7% Hispanic or Latino, with 26.8% of residents born abroad. Owners occupy 56.9% of homes; the median gross rent is $1,131 and the median value of an owned home $272,700. More residents walk to work here (3.6%) than in the county as a whole (1.0%), though most drive alone (72.0%), and the mean travel time is 24.1 minutes. About 6.0% of households have no vehicle, and 28.7% of residents 65 and older report a disability.
The state health facility file (September 16, 2026) lists primary care at Clinica Sierra Vista's McFarland Community Health Center on West Kern Avenue, the Community Health Centers of America McFarland Health Center on 3rd Street, and two clinics at 221 Elmo Highway (Peridot Health and Elmo Pediatrics and Family Walk-In Clinic). There is no hospital in the city; OSRM routing puts Adventist Health Delano 6.5 miles, about nine minutes, from the Kern Avenue clinic. The Kern County page carries the county-wide offices; for the neighboring cities, see Delano and Wasco.
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Caregiver jobs near McFarland
Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.
McFarland is part of Kern County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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- Caregiver jobs in Wasco, CA13 mi
- Caregiver jobs in Shafter, CA13 mi
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- Caregiver jobs in Oildale, CA20 mi
- Caregiver jobs in Bakersfield, CA24 mi
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Elsewhere in Kern County: Arvin · Tehachapi · California City · Mojave · Boron · Pine Mountain Club · Lamont · Rosamond
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
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, McFarland city
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 B26001 group quarters population, McFarland city
- City of McFarland, History
- City of McFarland, Senior Services
- City of McFarland, Transit
- 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 Aging and Adult Services, Become a Provider (archived June 8, 2026)
- Kern County Adult Protective Services and Aging and Adult Services address (archived July 18, 2026)
- Kern Transit, Route 110 (archived May 14, 2025)
- Bakersfield College, Delano Campus
- Kern County Library, hours and locations
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date September 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- OSRM routing on OpenStreetMap (road distances)
Caregiver jobs in McFarland: frequently asked questions
Where is the nearest Live Scan site for a McFarland IHSS provider?
The Attorney General's Kern County list shows none in McFarland. It has one site in Delano and one in Wasco, plus many in Bakersfield; check each site's fee and hours on the list before you go.
Can I get to the county offices in Bakersfield by bus from McFarland?
Kern Transit Route 110 picks up at the McFarland Community Center and runs to the GET downtown transit center. In the May 2025 timetable the first weekday bus south left at 6:09 a.m.; confirm current times on 1-800-323-2396.
Is the IHSS rate in McFarland different from Delano's?
No. Both cities are in Kern County, where IHSS providers have been paid $17.90 an hour since July 1, 2026. Cross a county line and the rate changes, because IHSS pay follows the county where the client lives.
Does McFarland have a senior center?
The city runs free senior activities for people 55 and over rather than a daily center: bingo and lotería at Veterans Hall, 103 W. Sherwood Avenue, a county information session there each month, and gardening at the community garden on Industrial Street.
Who hires caregivers in McFarland apart from families?
The facility files show homes for adults with developmental disabilities run by Positive Directions, and four primary care clinics. There is no nursing home or licensed elder care home with a McFarland address in the state data.
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