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Yuma County, Arizona

Caregiver Jobs in Yuma County, AZ

One page for the whole county: the City of Yuma, the Foothills, the border cities of San Luis and Somerton, and Wellton out on I-8. See what families post across the county, how Arizona pays relatives through ALTCS, and where the training and job centres are.

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Finding caregiver jobs in Yuma County

Yuma County is a single caregiving market with two very different halves. West and south of the city, San Luis and Somerton are young, overwhelmingly Hispanic farm and border towns where only one resident in ten is over 65 and care is arranged in Spanish inside large families. East of the city, Fortuna Foothills and Wellton are retirement country: 45.3% of Foothills residents and 52.1% of Wellton residents are 65 or older (ACS 2020–2024), and from December to May the Arizona State University winter-visitor study counted about 71,000 seasonal residents staying 30 days or more, nearly all of them retired, with a mean age in the mid-60s.

Formal home-care employment is thin here: the Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 780 home health and personal care aides in the Yuma metro in May 2025, a concentration of 0.41 against a national average of 1.00. Relatives, some paid through ALTCS, and privately hired caregivers do most of the work. No caregivers have joined from Yuma County yet, so an early profile here faces little competition for the first postings. Put your ZIP, whether you drive, whether you take seasonal assignments and whether you speak Spanish at the top of your profile.

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Cities and towns in Yuma County

Caregiver jobs by city and town

Each page below has its own local research and shows live postings near that place. Towns without a page yet are covered by this hub.

Area by area

The communities of Yuma County

Five places in the county have their own pages; the smaller communities below are covered by this page and by the nearest town page.
  • YumaThe county seat and only large city (105,227 in 2025): the hospital, the college, the workforce office and most caregivers; 17.6% of residents are 65 or older.
  • Fortuna FoothillsAn unincorporated census-designated place east of the city on I-8: 28,896 residents, 45.3% aged 65 or older, median age 61.1, plus a large seasonal population.
  • San LuisAn incorporated city of 42,030 on the Mexican border, 92.4% Hispanic, 90.9% Spanish-speaking at home, median age 33; clinics and a senior centre, hospital in Yuma.
  • SomertonAn incorporated city of 14,934 between Yuma and San Luis, 95.8% Hispanic, beside the Cocopah reservation, with the RCBH College of Health Careers.
  • WelltonAn incorporated town of 2,671 about 29 miles east of Yuma on I-8 with the county's oldest profile (52.1% aged 65 or older) and a Sunset Health clinic.
  • GadsdenAn unincorporated census-designated place of about 490 people between Somerton and San Luis, 95% Spanish-speaking at home.
  • TacnaAn unincorporated census-designated place of about 350 people east of Wellton on I-8, 22.1% aged 65 or older.
  • DatelandAn unincorporated census-designated place of about 200 people at the county's eastern edge, about a quarter of them over 65.
  • Avenue B and CAn unincorporated census-designated place of about 4,000 people on the south-west edge of Yuma, 79.2% Hispanic; part of the Yuma market in practice.
Types of caregiver jobs

Types of caregiver jobs in Yuma County

Countywide, families most often post help for an ageing parent in the city or the Foothills, respite for a spouse caring for a partner with dementia, and short-term daily visits for a seasonal resident whose children live in another state or in Canada.

  • Senior caregiving: day-to-day help so an older adult can stay at home.
  • Personal care: bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers.
  • Companion care: company, errands, appointments, light help.
  • Dementia care: routine-based support for memory loss.
  • Respite care: cover so a family caregiver can rest or work.
  • Live-in: room and board as part of the arrangement.
  • Overnight: supervision through the night.
  • Part-time and full-time: set by day and time block on your profile.
Pay

Caregiver pay in Yuma County

Public figures first, then what they mean for private work. Statistics describe employed aides across the Yuma, AZ metro (Yuma County); private rates on CaregiverConnect are agreed between each caregiver and family and are not tracked by any agency.

MeasureHourlySource and coverage
Home health and personal care aides, Yuma, AZ metro (Yuma County)$16.61 median ($16.39 mean)BLS OEWS, May 2025; 780 jobs; concentration 0.41× national
Arizona statewide aides (74,540 jobs), median$17.51BLS OEWS, May 2025
Arizona minimum wage$15.15effective January 1, 2026
Nursing assistants, Yuma, AZ metro (Yuma County)$18.20 medianBLS OEWS, May 2025 (certified roles, for comparison)

Who is the employer. A family that hires you directly is your employer. Arizona's minimum wage ($15.15 an hour in 2026) is the legal floor, and federal overtime rules apply to directly employed caregivers unless the work is exempt companionship under the FLSA. Sources: Industrial Commission of Arizona; US Department of Labor, direct care workers.

Arizona sets no county caregiver wage. The floor is the state minimum of $15.15 an hour (Industrial Commission of Arizona, from 1 January 2026); employed aides in the metro earn a median of $16.61, and the statewide aide median is $17.51. A relative paid through ALTCS is paid by the agency or, under Self-Directed Attendant Care, through a fiscal employer agent at the plan's rate, and a spouse cannot be paid for more than 40 hours in any seven-day period (AMPM Policy 1240-A). Privately agreed rates run above the employed median for personal care, nights and driving.

How the public numbers relate to private rates, and what affects them, is covered in the caregiver pay guide.

Rules

Caregiver requirements in Arizona, applied to Yuma County

Arizona regulates settings, not individuals. A caregiver a family hires directly for non-medical help needs no state licence, registration or minimum training. The rules start when an employer is involved: assisted living facilities must use caregivers who are 18 or older, have completed a Department of Health Services-approved caregiver training programme, hold current first aid and adult CPR, and comply with the fingerprint-card statute (A.A.C. R9-10-806; A.R.S. § 36-411). Approved programmes run at least 62 hours (A.A.C. R4-33-703). Agencies serving ALTCS members in their own homes must have direct care workers pass the AHCCCS standardised tests within 90 days of hire; nurses, CNAs and trained assisted-living caregivers are exempt. Everyone responsible for a vulnerable adult is a mandated reporter (A.R.S. § 46-454); Adult Protective Services is 1-877-767-2385. None of California's IHSS, Home Care Aide Registry or Domestic Worker Bill of Rights rules reach across the river into Arizona; they are described for cross-border comparison only on the Imperial County page.

Local resources

Training and career resources near Yuma County

Countywide resources, each verified on the organisation's own site; the town pages add what is in each town.

  • ARIZONA@WORK Yuma County (Yuma Private Industry Council)Main office 3826 W. 16th Street, Yuma, (928) 329-0990; resource centres in Somerton (201 N. Bingham Avenue) and San Luis (1453 N. Main Street).
  • Arizona Western College, Nursing Assistant certificateBoard of Nursing-approved; 8- or 16-week course; $500 resident tuition plus a $400 lab fee that covers the state test. (928) 344-7552, nursing.assistant@azwestern.edu.
  • RCBH College of Health Careers, Somerton(928) 315-7600, 950 E. Main Street, Building A. Caregiver (75 hours) and Nursing Assistant (160 hours) programmes, both tested for state certification.
  • WACOG Area Agency on Aging1235 S. Redondo Center Drive, Yuma, (928) 782-1886; single point of entry for home and community services 1-800-782-1886. Attendant care, respite, Family Caregiver Support, meals, Ombudsman.
  • ALTCS application (AHCCCS)Applications go through Health-e-Arizona Plus online or 1-855-432-7587 by phone; eligibility questions to ALTCS@azahcccs.gov. The county's ALTCS programme contractor is Banner – University Family Care.
  • Yuma County Area Transit (YCAT)2715 E. 14th Street, Yuma, (928) 783-2235. $2 one way; Yellow 95 and Silver 9 to Somerton and San Luis, Orange 2 and Gold 8 to the Foothills and Wellton, Turquoise 10 to El Centro; OnCall door-to-door $4.
  • Onvida Health2400 S. Avenue A, Yuma: the county's hospital, with an emergency department at the Foothills Medical Plaza (11351 S. Frontage Road) and a family medicine clinic in San Luis.
The area

Yuma County in numbers

The Census Bureau estimated 224,449 residents on 1 July 2025, up from 205,006 in the April 2020 estimates base, with the City of Yuma at 105,227, San Luis at 42,030, Somerton at 14,934 and Wellton at 2,671; Fortuna Foothills, a census-designated place, had 28,896 in the 2020–2024 ACS. Countywide, 20.7% of residents are 65 or older, 64.9% are Hispanic or Latino, 55.5% use a language other than English at home (53.3% Spanish) and the median household income is $62,876. The ASU study's 71,000 winter visitors sit on top of these figures.

For a caregiver the geography matters more than the totals. Yuma holds the hospital, the college and most of the services; the Foothills is an unincorporated strip along I-8 with its own emergency department and library but no town government; San Luis and Somerton lie south-west down US-95 with clinics but no hospital; Wellton is 29 miles east by the town's own reckoning. Across the Colorado River, Imperial County operates under California law, where IHSS pays $18.83 an hour; that is a comparison, not a rule that applies here.

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How it works

How to find caregiver work in Yuma County on CaregiverConnect

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  2. Set your availability and rate

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  3. Create your account

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  4. Browse, apply or respond

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  5. Agree on the details

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Guides

Useful reading before you apply

Sources (checked 2026-10-13):
  1. U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates, Arizona counties and incorporated places
  2. U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024 data profiles (DP02, DP03, DP05), Yuma County and its places
  3. Arizona State University / Visit Yuma, Yuma Winter Visitor Study 2017–18
  4. BLS OEWS May 2025, Yuma, AZ metropolitan area (31-1120, 31-1131)
  5. Industrial Commission of Arizona, minimum wage
  6. AHCCCS, ALTCS eligibility and application
  7. AHCCCS Eligibility Policy Manual, ALTCS-EPD program contractors by county (rev. 04/29/2025)
  8. AHCCCS, ALTCS-EPD contract extension notice, September 2025
  9. AHCCCS AMPM Policy 1240-A, attendant care and spouse/parent as paid caregiver
  10. AHCCCS AMPM Policy 1320-A, Self-Directed Attendant Care
  11. AHCCCS, Direct Care Worker training and testing
  12. Arizona Administrative Code R9-10-806 (assisted living personnel) and R4-33-703 (caregiver training)
  13. Arizona DPS, fingerprint clearance cards
  14. Arizona DES, Adult Protective Services
  15. Arizona Western College, Nursing Assistant certificate and locations
  16. RCBH College of Health Careers, Caregiver and Nursing Assistant programmes
  17. Yuma Private Industry Council / ARIZONA@WORK Yuma County
  18. WACOG Area Agency on Aging
  19. Yuma County Area Transit, routes, fares and OnCall
  20. Onvida Health, locations
  21. Town of Wellton, About
  22. CDSS, IHSS wages by county (California comparison only)
Questions

Caregiver jobs in Yuma County: frequently asked questions

Which Yuma County towns have their own caregiver job page?

Yuma, Fortuna Foothills, San Luis, Somerton and Wellton. Gadsden, Tacna, Dateland and Avenue B and C are described above and served by the nearest town page; postings from all of them appear in the county list.

How wide should I set my travel radius?

From the city, 15 miles reaches the Foothills, Somerton and Avenue B and C; 25 miles adds San Luis; Wellton needs about 30.

Can a relative be paid to care for someone in Yuma County?

Yes, if the person qualifies for ALTCS. The programme contractor for the county, Banner – University Family Care, can pay a relative through a home-care agency or let the member employ a family member directly under Self-Directed Attendant Care; a spouse is paid only via an agency and never for more than 40 hours in a week, and a parent cannot be paid for a minor child.

Do I need Spanish for the south county?

In San Luis, Somerton and Gadsden, yes in practice: nine households in ten speak Spanish and many older residents speak little English. In the Foothills and Wellton the working language is English.

What about caregivers living on the California side?

Winterhaven lies just across the Colorado River from Yuma and YCAT's Turquoise 10 runs to El Centro, but California's IHSS programme and wage rules stop at the river. The Imperial County page covers that side; this page is Arizona only.

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