NAICS 621610 · California overview

Home Health & Home Care Services in Placer County

Placer County had 42 Home Health establishments in 2023, ranking 19 of 43 California counties and accounting for 0.8% of the statewide total.

Establishments (2023)
42
Rank 19 of 43 counties
Employees
1,382
Mid-March employment
Annual payroll
$96M
All establishments
Per 10k residents
1.0
442,081 residents

More recent reading

BLS QCEW, 2026Q1

The figures above are County Business Patterns, which carries the size distribution but runs about two years behind. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes quarterly, so this is the same industry roughly 3 years later. The two count different universes, Census counts establishments with paid employees in the March pay period and BLS counts worksites covered by unemployment insurance during the quarter, so the numbers are not directly comparable and either can be the larger.

Establishments
55
2026Q1
Employment
1,296
Quarter-end level
Average weekly wage
$1,363
Per covered worker
Quarterly trend
+3.8%
2025Q2 to 2026Q1
Concentration vs the national averageBLS, 2026Q1

0.57 location quotient. Home Health employment in Placer County is about 1.8 times less concentrated than in the United States as a whole.

Computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not derived here. Above 1.0 means the industry is a larger share of local employment than of national employment.

Establishments by size

Employee-count distribution for Home Health in Placer County. 12 of 42 establishments (29%) employ 10 or more people, the practical floor for most acquisition financing.

EmployeesEstablishmentsShareDistribution
1-41842.9%
5-9716.7%
20-49819.0%
100-24949.5%

Establishment trend

Year-over-year establishment counts, County Business Patterns. Net growth of 27.3% since 2020.

YearEstablishmentsChange
202033n/a
202137+4
202238+1
202342+4

How this market compares

Placer County against every other county in California on the same measure. The median excludes places under 2,000 residents, where per-capita figures are arithmetically true but analytically useless.

Above average1.0 per 10,000 residents, against a state median of 0.8

More provision than the typical California market of this size. Usually a sign of genuine local demand rather than oversupply.

Vs state median
+16%
Businesses per resident
Rank by count
#19
of 43 counties
Rank by density
#12
of 43 ranked
Since 2020
+27%
Change in establishments

Density compares home health & home care services provision per resident. It does not measure revenue, profitability or whether a market is worth entering.

Business size mix

Placer tracks the California size distribution closely.

Share of establishmentsPlacerCaliforniaDifference
Under 5 employeesOwner-operated, often no management layer42.9%42.7%+0.1%
5 to 49 employeesThe range most individual buyers target35.7%46.4%-10.6%
10 or more employeesPractical floor for acquisition financing28.6%38.7%-10.1%

What acquirers look at

Demographics guarantee demand growth. Licensure transfer and payor mix, private pay versus Medicaid, determine whether the business is actually financeable.

Cities in Placer

The figures above cover the county as a whole. These are the places within it.

Other industries in Placer

Sources

  1. U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns. Establishment counts, employment and annual payroll by NAICS. Retrieved 2026-09-08.
  2. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (2026Q1). Quarterly establishment counts and employment for employers covered by unemployment insurance. Retrieved 2026-09-08.