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Walnut, California · Los Angeles County
Caregiver Jobs in Walnut, CA
The City of Walnut, in Los Angeles County, has 28,623 residents and a large older population, but no hospital or nursing home of its own. Care work here is mostly in homes, adult day health centers and assisted living, and requests from 91789 families appear above as they are posted.
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Finding in-home caregiver jobs in Walnut
Walnut, CA has no general acute care hospital or skilled nursing facility in CDPH's October 16, 2026 listing, so the paid care jobs inside the city are of three kinds. The first is adult day health care: Christ the King Adult Day Health Care Center on Amar Road and Spring Adult Day Health Care on Camino de Rosa are both licensed by CDPH, and each needs aides on its daytime floor. The second is home health and hospice. Four home health agencies share one office building at 18780 Amar Road (Access Home Health Care, Able Hands, A Care Home Health and Precious Home Health Services), A & C Healthcare is on Valley Boulevard, and Multi-Skilled Home Care Services and Monarch Hospice Care work from Camino de Rosa; California Comfort Care, another hospice, is also on Amar Road. The third is assisted living, led by Everest at Walnut Valley Senior Living on E. Colima Road, which CDSS licenses for 120 residents.
Private households supply most steady hours, and language often decides who gets them. Census estimates for 2020–2024 find that 54.0% of Walnut residents over age four talk at home in Asian or Pacific Islander languages, and 30.1% pair one of those languages with limited English. Chinese residents make up 42.8% of the population and Filipino residents 9.4%. If you speak Mandarin, Cantonese or Tagalog, state it at the start of your profile. New Walnut postings land in the list above as soon as a family publishes.
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Families looking for private caregivers near Walnut, CA
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Types of caregiver jobs
Types of caregiver jobs in Walnut
Expect Walnut families to ask for a caregiver who stays with a parent while adult children work, an escort on adult day health center days, help around the visits of a home health nurse or hospice team, and someone who can manage a Dial-a-Cab trip to a doctor or the senior center on La Puente Road.
Senior caregiving · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Live-in · Overnight · Part-time and full-time
Pay
Caregiver pay in Walnut: 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.
About 5.1% of Walnut's labor force was unemployed, on average, between August 2025 and August 2026, according to EDD estimates. Over those months Los Angeles County averaged 5.4% and the state 5.3%, so Walnut was slightly lower than both, with a labor force of roughly 13,200. The county pays IHSS providers $19.64 for each authorized hour with a client living in Walnut; the IHSS guide for Los Angeles County covers how to sign up. A client who lives in Chino Hills, in San Bernardino County, is paid at that county's rate instead.
Walnut has no wage ordinance on UC Berkeley's tracker, so $16.90, the state figure, is the least a household may pay for private care in the city. A family that employs a personal attendant owes 1.5 times the regular rate for work past nine hours a day or 45 a week, under the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. Walnut households have an ACS median income of $129,449, and renters pay a median $3,202.
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 Walnut
The City of Walnut has no caregiver licensing of its own. As a household's direct hire for help with dressing, bathing, meals or company, you need no license. Christ the King and Spring adult day health centers, the six home health agencies and the two hospices are CDPH-licensed employers, and their aide roles usually call for a nurse assistant or home health aide certificate. Access Care Solutions and Resource Group and Extended Family Caregiving hold CDSS home care organization licenses with Walnut addresses; any aide they place needs a Home Care Aide Registry listing first. IHSS work starts with DPSS enrollment, provider orientation and fingerprints, and DPSS answers IHSS questions on (888) 822-9622 (option 4). Mandated reporting of elder abuse applies to you. The county page and the state requirements guide go further.
Local resources
Training and career resources near Walnut
Walnut training, employers and transit, each confirmed on an official page or in a state file this month.
- Mt. SAC ELL Healthcare PathwaysMt. SAC's continuing education school, at 1100 N. Grand Avenue in Walnut, runs this program for English language learners entering tuition-free health courses, the CNA course among them. It provides free tutoring online or in person, free books, supplies and exam prep material, a free summer bootcamp on medical terminology, skills coaching during on-site training, and mentoring on language and cultural barriers. Start with the online interest form.
- Mt. SAC nurse assistant course costsTuition is free, but the college estimates about $611 in other costs, the largest items being the health and physical exam ($203), the textbook ($130) and BLS/CPR certification ($82).
- Adult day health centers in 91789CDPH licenses Christ the King Adult Day Health Care Center at 18800 Amar Road, Suite D4-08 ((626) 673-4601) and Spring Adult Day Health Care at 19648 Camino de Rosa ((626) 965-7833).
- Home health agencies and hospicesIn the CDPH file: Access Home Health Care ((626) 965-2084), Able Hands Home Health Care ((626) 965-2233), A Care Home Health and Precious Home Health Services, all at 18780 Amar Road; A & C Healthcare, 20465 Valley Boulevard; Multi-Skilled Home Care Services and Monarch Hospice Care, 19608 Camino de Rosa; California Comfort Care, 18800 Amar Road.
- Discount Foothill Transit passesWalnut residents can buy a rolling 31-day Foothill Transit pass at City Hall, 21201 La Puente Road: $52 for an adult local pass, $28 for seniors or riders with a disability. Cash or check only, Monday to Thursday 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; City Hall is closed on Fridays.
The area
Walnut in numbers
Walnut's population on January 1, 2026 was 28,623, according to the Department of Finance. ACS 2020–2024 estimates show a median age of 46.8 and 6,630 people aged 65 or older, 24.0% of residents, of whom 473 are 85 or older. Almost half of the city's 8,665 households (4,216, or 48.7%) include someone 65-plus, while only 484 are a lone older householder. A disability is reported by 18.4% of those 65-plus. Just over half of all residents (51.9%) were born outside the United States, and 83.8% of homes are owner-occupied, with the median one valued at $1,014,000.
Of employed residents, 27.5% work in education, health care or social assistance; commutes average 33.5 minutes, and 67.8% of workers drive alone. CDSS also licenses eight small adult residential homes in 91789 and OPARC Summit Services West, an adult day program on S. Lemon Avenue for 60 participants, both of which hire direct support staff. Nearby pages: West Covina, Covina, Diamond Bar and Rowland Heights.
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How to find private caregiver jobs in Walnut (no agency)
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Caregiver jobs near Walnut
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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
- California DIR, Minimum Wage FAQ
- California DIR, Domestic Worker Bill of Rights FAQ
- LA County DPSS, In-Home Supportive Services
- CDPH, Licensed and Certified Healthcare Facility Listing (data date October 16, 2026)
- CDSS Community Care Licensing, RCFE, adult residential and home care organization files (file date May 25, 2025)
- Mt. San Antonio College, ELL Healthcare Pathways
- Mt. San Antonio College, Short-Term Vocational Certified Nurse Assistant
- City of Walnut, Transportation (read via r.jina.ai; the site returns 403 to direct requests)
- City of Walnut, Dial-a-Cab
- California Department of Finance, E-1 population estimates 2026
- U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 5-year profiles DP02–DP05, Walnut city
Questions
Caregiver jobs in Walnut: frequently asked questions
Where are the health care employers in Walnut?
No hospital or nursing home has a Walnut address in CDPH's October 2026 facility data. The licensed health care employers inside the city are two adult day health centers, six home health agencies and two hospices.
Does speaking Mandarin or Cantonese help in Walnut?
Often, yes, though English-only caregivers find work too. Asian or Pacific Islander languages are spoken at home by more than half of residents five and up, and roughly three in ten residents are more comfortable in one of them than in English, so family posts often name a language.
What does IHSS pay for a client in Walnut?
Los Angeles County's provider rate, $19.64 an hour since January 1, 2026, for every hour DPSS authorizes. If the client lives in Chino Hills, San Bernardino County's rate applies instead.
Is there a local minimum wage in Walnut?
No. The Labor Center at UC Berkeley has no Walnut entry in its ordinance tracker, which leaves household caregiving in the city at California's $16.90 hourly minimum.
Is unemployment high in Walnut?
No. EDD's estimates average about 5.1% for August 2025 through August 2026, below Los Angeles County at 5.4% and California at 5.3%.
Can a non-native English speaker get CNA training near Walnut?
Mt. SAC's ELL Healthcare Pathways program supports English learners through its tuition-free health courses, CNA included, with free tutoring, materials and mentoring. Fill in its interest form to check eligibility.
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