The 9 Best In-Home Care Agencies in Irvine, CA

We ranked the top nine in-home care agencies serving Irvine, CA. Every one holds an active state license in the California Department of Social Services public roster dated May 25, 2025, and each has at least 10 public reviews. They are ordered by the Care Close to Home Score, which combines the rating (adjusted for how many reviews stand behind it), the number of reviews, and the license check. The other 31 licensed agencies serving Irvine, CA are not listed here.

In-home care means non-medical help that lets an older adult keep living at home: bathing and dressing, meals, housekeeping, errands, medication reminders and company. It is usually paid for privately, with long-term care insurance, a Medicaid program or VA benefits, not by Medicare. Compare at least three agencies, and ask each whether caregivers are employees, how they are screened, who supervises them, the minimum hours and the hourly rate.

In California, the median rate for in-home care is $40 an hour, about $3,467 a month for 20 hours a week (CareScout 2025).

The 40 agencies on this list are based in 8 ZIP codes; the busiest are 92618 (12 agencies), 92614 (8 agencies) and 92612 (7 agencies).