Median age 33.5, and most households rent
Canoga Park's 91303 is home to 29,805 people, and 2,598 of them are 65 or older: 8.7 percent. The median age is 33.5. The figures are from the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey. The 2,598 is its 65 and older age groups added together, not an estimate from a percentage. Half the households in 91303 have incomes under $74,474, the median. Most households here rent: only 2,308 of the 10,702 occupied homes are owner occupied, or 21.6 percent, which leaves nearly four in five renting. Countywide, a little over half of households rent. Nearly half of the people in 91303 speak Spanish at home. That is 48.3 percent of everyone 5 and older, about 13,600 people, while 33.6 percent speak only English. Lara works directly in Spanish, so the conversation does not depend on someone in the family interpreting. Anyone who wants to join is welcome.
Three hospitals: UCLA West Valley, Northridge and Kaiser Woodland Hills
UCLA West Valley Medical Center, at 7300 Medical Center Drive in West Hills, is licensed for 249 beds. Northridge Hospital Medical Center, at 18300 Roscoe Blvd, is licensed for 354. Kaiser Foundation Hospital Woodland Hills, licensed for 274, is for Kaiser members except in an emergency. California's license for each hospital is the source of its bed count, as of September 2026. UCLA West Valley and Northridge Hospital are each in some Medicare Advantage networks and missing from others. Usually the medical group decides whether a given plan gets you in. A medical group is the organization of doctors a plan works through, and one insurer's plans may use different ones. The contracts between plans, groups and hospitals are not permanent, and hospitals move in and out of networks. So before you choose, Lara runs your hospital, every doctor you see and your pharmacy through the current directories of the plans you are considering. She repeats that check each fall, before your plan renews.
What leaving Los Angeles County does to your plan
Most households in 91303 rent. If yours does, ask yourself where you might be living in a few years, because the answer bears on which kind of coverage fits. Medicare Advantage plans are sold county by county, so leaving Los Angeles County usually means choosing a new plan where you land. A Medicare Supplement moves with you, and you can keep using it with any doctor in the country who takes Medicare. Lara can run both against your own doctors and prescriptions, then show you how each plays out if you stay in Canoga Park and if you move away.
Medicare Advantage across Los Angeles County in 2027
About 57 percent of Los Angeles County's 1.7 million Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or another Medicare health plan (CMS, May 2026). The county has 70 Medicare Advantage plans open to general enrollment in 2027, plus 54 Special Needs Plans, and 60 of the 70 charge a $0 monthly plan premium (CMS 2027 Landscape file). What varies far more is the out of pocket maximum, the most you pay in a year for covered care in network: our analysis of the same file puts the average at $2,232 and the median at $1,500, with a range from $199 to $9,850.
Lara is a licensed insurance agent. Insurance companies pay her when you enroll, so her help costs you nothing and your premium is the same with or without her.
How Lara is paidIndependent Medicare help in Canoga Park
Goulson Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency, and our agents work as licensed brokers for Canoga Park families. No single insurance company employs us or decides what we recommend, so the comparison starts with your doctors, your prescriptions and your budget. We put Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement and Part D plans from several carriers side by side, and you enroll only if one fits. The agency holds CA license 6020069, Lara Goulson holds CA license 0E69969, and we work in English, Spanish and Hebrew.
The plan, and the phone calls after it
If your plan denies a claim, Lara joins you on the call to the plan. If a bill arrives with an error, she helps you get it fixed, including a call to the doctor's office when that is where the problem started. Long term care, life insurance and final expense coverage get their own appointment with her, apart from your Medicare review.
Lara's number is (818) 472-5484. Call or text with your doctors' names in front of you.
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