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Piru, California · Ventura County
Caregiver Jobs in Piru, CA
Piru is a small unincorporated community in Ventura County, about 2,185 people by the Census estimate. Requests from ZIP 93040 appear above as families post them; widen the radius to include work along the Valley Express routes.
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Piru has no city hall. It is a census-designated place in unincorporated Ventura County, and the Census Bureau's ACS 2020–2024 estimate is 2,185 residents, give or take 527. It is a young place overall (median age 32.1), but older people are spread across many homes: 367 residents are 65 or over, and 40.6% of Piru's 591 households include someone in that age group. Most care work here will be for a grandparent or parent living with family, not for someone alone.
Spanish is the working language for many of these jobs. In ACS, Spanish is the home language of 66.5% of residents aged five and up, and in the detailed language table about 636 of them (roughly a third of everyone five and older) speak English less than "very well." If you are bilingual, say so in the first line of your profile. State licensing data show no nursing home, home health agency or licensed home care office with a Piru address, so paid work in town is mostly private families and IHSS. Facility jobs are in Fillmore and beyond; list how you get around, because the Piru Route bus timetable decides which shifts you can reach without a car.
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Families looking for private caregivers near Piru, CA
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in Piru
Expect requests for help around the house and with personal care: meals, bathing, medication reminders, and company for an older relative while adults work. ACS places 8.8% of Piru's employed residents in agriculture and 19.7% in education, health care and social assistance, and the average commute is 33.9 minutes, so many families need someone during long workdays. A good first job for someone new is a few weekday hours for a family that has applied for IHSS, or a relative's own IHSS case.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in Piru: how much caregivers make
Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA metro (Ventura 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, Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA metro (Ventura County) | $16.50 median ($17.88 mean) | BLS OEWS, May 2025; 15,250 jobs; concentration 1.7× national |
| IHSS provider wage, Ventura County | $20.97 | CDSS; effective July 1, 2026 |
| California minimum wage | $16.90 | effective January 1, 2026 |
| Nursing assistants, Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA metro (Ventura County) | $22.50 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.
About 7.5% of Piru's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates, with monthly readings from 6.2% to 8.2%. Ventura County as a whole averaged 4.7% and California 5.3% over the same months. EDD estimates small unincorporated places like Piru, with a labor force near 1,200, from county totals, so treat the figure as approximate. Work that does not depend on a season helps here: Ventura County IHSS pays providers $20.97 an hour, well above the metro aide median of $16.50, and the Ventura County IHSS guide explains how to enroll. No Ventura County city, nor the county, has a wage ordinance in UC Berkeley Labor Center tracking, so private families in Piru answer to the state $16.90 floor.
How to enroll as a provider in Ventura County, with the office phone lines and orientation steps, is in the IHSS Ventura 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 Piru
A family that hires you itself for non-medical care needs no license from you, and only licensed agencies must place their aides on the Home Care Aide Registry. The one licensed home care organization CDSS lists in the area is in Fillmore, on West Ventura Street. To become an IHSS provider you deal with the Ventura County Human Services Agency, whose IHSS and Public Authority offices are on Market Street in Ventura (805-654-3260 and 805-654-3416) and on North Madera Road in Simi Valley (805-306-7935). The agency also has a Fillmore Community Service Center, at 828 Ventura Street, that handles Medi-Cal applications. Nursing-home work requires a CDPH nurse assistant certificate. Ventura County's abuse hotline, which takes elder and dependent adult reports, is 805-654-3200. Full rules are in the requirements guide.
Local resources
Training and career resources near Piru
Transit, training and job-search options for Piru caregivers, each checked on the provider's or the state's own page in October 2026.
- Valley Express Piru RouteLoops from the Fillmore Terminal through El Dorado Estates, Rancho Sespe, Piru Square and Valle Naranjal and back. On weekdays the first bus leaves Fillmore at 6:15 a.m. and gets to Piru Square at 6:37; the final loop returns to the Fillmore Terminal at 7:54 p.m. Weekend loops run from 8 a.m., with the last return at 5:54 p.m.
- Valley Express Dial-A-RideA shared-ride service open to everyone within Fillmore, Santa Paula, Piru and the unincorporated Heritage Valley, booked the same day by phone (805-933-2267), online or in the app; $2 a trip. Useful for reaching a client's door away from the bus loop.
- Simi Institute for Careers & EducationA state-approved CNA training site on the CDPH list, at 1880 Blackstock Avenue, Simi Valley, (805) 579-6200. Other Ventura County programs on the roster include Ventura County Care Academy on South Victoria Avenue in Ventura and the County Office of Education CEC/ROP in Camarillo.
- Piru LibraryThe county library branch at 3811 Center Street has public computers, Wi-Fi, scanning and printing, handy for online IHSS provider enrollment or a job application. Open Monday to Thursday 1 to 6 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; (805) 626-READ.
- America's Job Center of California, OxnardThe Human Services Agency lists this job center at 2901 N. Ventura Road, 3rd floor, Oxnard, alongside its Fillmore Community Service Center at 828 Ventura Street, Suite 200.
- Care employers in FillmoreCDPH lists Greenfield Care Center of Fillmore (118 B Street, 99 nursing beds) and clinics on Central Avenue and West Ventura Street; CDSS lists Fillmore Country Club, a 66-bed elder care home on River Street, and Compassionate Home Care, a licensed home care organization at 1213 W. Ventura Street.
The area
Piru in numbers
ACS 2020–2024 describes Piru as 88.5% Hispanic or Latino, with 34.0% of residents born outside the United States. Median household income is $89,375, owner-occupied homes have a median value of $624,300, and median gross rent is $1,490; 53.3% of homes are owner-occupied. About half of residents (50.8%) have public health coverage such as Medi-Cal or Medicare, and 11.1% have none. Because the town is small, these estimates carry wide margins of error.
Two places serve older residents in town. Nikki's Casamia Restaurant and Catering, 3944 Center Street, appears in the county Area Agency on Aging directory as a meal site serving seniors both on site and by delivery, and County Parks runs the Piru Community Center on Orchard Street. For pages covering more of the county, see Santa Paula, Simi Valley and the Ventura County page; across the county line, Santa Clarita has its own page.
How it works
How to find private caregiver jobs in Piru (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Piru
Families often post from neighbouring towns. Set your travel radius in your profile and you will appear in their searches too.
Piru is part of Ventura County; the hub pages list every town and area they cover.
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 2026-10-16):
- 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, Piru CDP
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 C16001 (language spoken at home), Piru CDP
- Valley Express, Piru Route timetable
- Valley Express, Dial-A-Ride
- Ventura County Area Agency on Aging, Nikki's Casamia Restaurant and Catering (meal site)
- Ventura County Library, Piru Library
- Ventura County Parks, Piru Community Center
- Ventura County Human Services Agency, In-Home Supportive Services
- Ventura County Human Services Agency, locations
- CDPH, Certified Nurse Assistant training programs
- CDPH, healthcare facility locations (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing facility files (file date May 25, 2025)
- CDSS, IHSS wages by county
- BLS OEWS May 2025, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA (31-1120, 31-1131)
- UC Berkeley Labor Center, inventory of local minimum wage ordinances
Questions
Caregiver jobs in Piru: frequently asked questions
Can I get from Piru to a job in Fillmore by bus?
Yes. The Valley Express Piru Route runs every day between Piru Square and the Fillmore Terminal. On weekdays the first bus reaches Piru Square at 6:37 a.m. and the last loop gets back to Fillmore at 7:54 p.m.
Are there nursing homes or care agencies in Piru itself?
No. The CDPH and CDSS licensing files list none with a Piru address. The same files do list employers in Fillmore, including a 99-bed nursing facility on B Street and a licensed home care organization on West Ventura Street.
What does IHSS pay a provider in Piru?
$20.97 an hour, the Ventura County rate since July 1, 2026, for the hours the county authorizes. Enrollment runs through the Human Services Agency's IHSS offices in Ventura or Simi Valley.
Do I need to speak Spanish to work in Piru?
Not always, but it helps a great deal. ACS estimates show Spanish as the home language for two in three Piru residents over four, and roughly one in three of them has limited English.
Is unemployment high in Piru?
Higher than the county. EDD estimates averaged about 7.5% over the year to August 2026, against 4.7% for Ventura County. It is a model-based figure for a small place, so it is approximate.
How do Piru families find caregivers here?
They post on the Piru family page. Your profile is free, and CaregiverConnect takes no commission from what families pay you.
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