Caregiver Jobs in North Highlands, CA
North Highlands is an unincorporated community of about 48,000 people in Sacramento County, where the median age is 34.2 and about a fifth of residents speak Spanish at home. Private and IHSS jobs posted under ZIP 95660 appear above as families add them.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in North Highlands
There is no City of North Highlands. For Census purposes it is a census-designated place; Sacramento County is its government. The local public body most residents deal with day to day is the North Highlands Recreation and Park District, an independent special district run by a five-member elected board. It serves a population of 49,327, maintains 13 parks and has its office at 6040 Watt Avenue; the district says some of its recreation buildings came to it when McClellan Air Force Base closed. Its free and low-cost senior programs, listed below, are worth knowing if a client wants company during the week.
The paid care economy inside 95660 is mostly residential and small. CDSS's May 2025 licensing file lists eight elder care homes (RCFEs) in the ZIP and 12 adult residential facilities for younger adults with disabilities, almost all of them six beds or fewer, plus three six-bed intermediate care homes for people with developmental disabilities on CDPH's list. CDPH shows no skilled nursing facility, hospital or home health agency at a North Highlands address, and CDSS lists no licensed home care organization here. In practice that means two kinds of work close to home: direct jobs with families and IHSS clients, and shifts in small residential homes. Institutional jobs mean commuting, so give your travel radius honestly and say whether you drive.
Families looking for private caregivers near North Highlands, CA
Real postings from families on CaregiverConnect, matched to North Highlands by distance. 1 caregiver within 50 miles already have profiles here.
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Types of caregiver jobs in North Highlands
Expect posts from adult children arranging help for a parent who still lives at home: getting up and dressed, a shower with standby help, meals, reminders, a ride to a Watt Avenue clinic or a dialysis chair on Roseville Road. ACS 2020–2024 counts about 1,700 households here where someone 65 or older lives alone, and 47.0% of older residents outside institutions report a disability, compared with 36.4% in Carmichael. Spanish is spoken at home by 21.7% of residents five and older, and a bilingual applicant can lead with that. No paid history yet? Begin with company and errands for one family, or ask one of the small adult residential homes whether it trains new staff.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Caregiver pay in North Highlands: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom, CA metro (Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo 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, Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom, CA metro (Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties) | $16.50 median ($17.20 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 60,350 jobs; concentration 2.02× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Sacramento County | $19.15 | CDSS; effective January 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom, CA metro (Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado and Yolo counties) | $22.84 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.
Sacramento–Roseville–Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties) projection: 55,230 aide jobs in 2023 to 73,060 in 2033 (+32.3%), about 111,260 openings over the decade including replacements (California EDD, 2023–2033 projections published April 2026). Openings are not the same as net new jobs.
About 4.6% of North Highlands's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates, below both Sacramento County's 5.0% and the statewide 5.3%. Monthly figures ranged from 4.0% to 5.1% across roughly 22,300 people in the labor force, and because North Highlands is a census-designated place, EDD derives the number from county totals, so take it as approximate. For care work the more useful numbers are the pay ones. An IHSS provider here earns the county rate of $19.15 an hour (the Sacramento County IHSS guide explains enrollment). No wage ordinance for North Highlands or Sacramento County appears in the UC Berkeley Labor Center inventory, which leaves $16.90, the state figure, as the bottom of the scale for private and agency hours. American River College tells its students that home health aides in the Sacramento area earn $18.00 to $25.00 an hour and CNAs $21.13 to $26.67.
How to enroll as a provider in Sacramento County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Sacramento 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 North Highlands
State rules are the same in an unincorporated CDP as anywhere else in California. Helping a North Highlands family with bathing, meals and errands as their own employee needs no license. The Home Care Aide Registry applies if you join a licensed home care organization; none is based in 95660, so that means an agency elsewhere in the county. For IHSS, enroll with the Sacramento County Public Authority through its online BOUNDS portal, watch the orientation videos there and book an in-person appointment. The Attorney General's Live Scan list includes four fingerprinting sites with North Highlands addresses. Read the California requirements guide for the full rules.
Training and career resources near North Highlands
Training, clinics and local programs useful to a caregiver working in North Highlands, all checked on the sources below.
- American River College, CNA (NURSE 100) and Home Health Aide (NURSE 101)The spring 2027 CNA course runs January 20 to April 30, 2027 (tuition $322, plus uniform and $57 to $70 for Live Scan), with lectures Monday, Wednesday and Friday and clinical shifts in a local nursing facility. Applications for spring are accepted October 18 to November 30. The 46-hour HHA course follows in May for students who finish NURSE 100 or already hold a CNA.
- Twin Rivers Adult SchoolTwin Rivers Unified's adult school at 5703 Skvarla Avenue, McClellan, offers ESL, citizenship preparation, adult basic education, computer and digital literacy classes, and career technical and workforce preparation courses. Front office (916) 566-2785, open 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
- Watt Avenue health centersCDPH licenses WellSpace Health's North Highlands Community Health Center (6015 Watt Avenue) and WellSpace Health at Watt Avenue (6060 Watt Avenue, (916) 737-5555), Elica Health Centers at 4815 Watt Avenue, and Sacramento Community Clinic - Watt at 4986 Watt Avenue, Suite D. The WellSpace and Elica sites also appear in HRSA's health center list. A client you drive may well be a patient at one of them.
- North Highlands Dialysis Center4612 Roseville Road, Suite 100, licensed by CDPH for 27 stations. If a client dialyzes, the schedule you are offered will be built around those treatment days.
- Vista Esperanza and the small care homesVista Esperanza on Jackson Street, licensed in September 2024 for 54 residents, is the only elder care home in 95660 larger than six beds in the CDSS file. The other seven RCFEs and most of the 12 adult residential facilities are six-bed homes, and RCCA Community Access Program runs a licensed adult day program for up to 43 people at 4980 Watt Avenue.
- NHRPD senior programsAt the district's Recreation Center and the Kay F. Dahill Community Center (6040 Watt Avenue): free Senior Game Day on Mondays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Harvestime on Thursdays 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., a free senior dance class on Monday and Thursday mornings, and Tuesday bingo from 9 a.m. to noon at five cents a card, all for ages 55 and up. District office (916) 332-7440.
North Highlands in numbers
The ACS 2020–2024 puts North Highlands CDP at 47,957 residents (±2,791) with a median age of 34.2, about six years younger than Carmichael's. Some 5,789 residents (12.1%) are 65 or older and 556 are 85 or older, and 27.6% of the 15,901 households include someone 65 or older. Just over a quarter of residents (28.7%) were born abroad, and 44.0% of those aged five and up speak a language other than English at home: Spanish (21.7%), other Indo-European languages (16.1%) and Asian and Pacific Island languages (4.4%). One in five (20.4%) speaks English less than very well. The median home is valued at $367,600, median gross rent is $1,636, 48.9% of households rent, 8.9% have no vehicle, and 19.6% of residents live below the poverty line. Workers average 30.7 minutes to their jobs.
For larger employers, the Carmichael page lists that community's eight nursing facilities and Mercy San Juan Medical Center, and Citrus Heights, Roseville and Rancho Cordova carry their own postings. The Sacramento County page covers county-wide services.
How to find private caregiver jobs in North Highlands (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near North Highlands
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North Highlands is part of Sacramento County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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 data profiles DP02–DP05, North Highlands CDP
- North Highlands Recreation and Park District, About Us
- North Highlands Recreation and Park District, Senior Programs
- North Highlands Recreation and Park District, Senior Game Day
- North Highlands Recreation and Park District, Harvestime
- North Highlands Recreation and Park District, Senior Bingo
- North Highlands Recreation and Park District, Senior Dance Class
- CDPH, licensed and certified healthcare facility locations (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- HRSA, health center service delivery sites (data download)
- American River College, Nurse Assistant and Home Health Aide
- Twin Rivers Adult School, home page and contact
- California Attorney General, Live Scan locations, Sacramento County
- Sacramento County IHSS Public Authority, provider enrollment
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA (31-1120, 31-1131)
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county (IP Effective 10-1-2026 sheet)
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
Caregiver jobs in North Highlands: frequently asked questions
Who governs North Highlands?
Sacramento County. North Highlands is unincorporated, so there is no city council or city hall; parks and senior recreation come from the North Highlands Recreation and Park District, which has its own elected board.
Are there nursing home or hospital jobs in North Highlands itself?
Not by CDPH's October 2026 list, which shows no skilled nursing facility, hospital or home health agency with a 95660 address. Local facility work is in small licensed care homes, the one larger RCFE (Vista Esperanza), clinics and a dialysis center.
How does unemployment in North Highlands compare?
EDD's 12-month average to August 2026 is about 4.6%, below Sacramento County (5.0%) and California (5.3%). It is a modeled figure for a census-designated place, so treat it as approximate.
Is there a higher local minimum wage?
No. The Labor Center inventory has no entry for North Highlands or the county, so you are owed at least the state's $16.90. IHSS work for a county client pays $19.15.
Where can I do Live Scan fingerprinting near home?
The Attorney General's Live Scan directory lists four sites with North Highlands addresses. Check hours and accepted payment on the list before you go; some are closed on certain weekdays.
How do North Highlands families find me?
Families post on the North Highlands family page, and posts near 95660 reach caregivers whose travel radius covers it.
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