Compton's 14,206 people 65 and older, ZIP by ZIP
Compton is a young city. People 65 and older number 14,206, or 10.8 percent of the 131,353 who live in its three ZIP codes. Countywide, the share is 15.2 percent. On the west side, 90220 has 5,763 people 65 and older, a median age of 34.7 and a median household income of $82,335. On the east side, 90221 has 5,173 and a median age of 33.5. In 90222, to the north, 3,270 people are 65 or older, and households there have a median income of $78,425. In Compton, 19,193 of the 34,324 occupied homes belong to the people who live in them. The city's share is 55.9 percent, and the county's is 45.9 percent. By ZIP code, the owner share is 61.5 percent in 90220, 54.2 percent in 90222 and 51.0 percent in 90221. All of these figures are from the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey. We totaled the 65 and older counts from the survey's age brackets.
A hospital stay from Compton means leaving the city
To the north, in Lynwood, St. Francis Medical Center at 3630 East Imperial Highway has 314 licensed beds. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital sits to the northwest at 1680 East 120th Street, with 131. West of the city, Memorial Hospital of Gardena, at 1145 W Redondo Beach Blvd, has 103. Southwest, at 1000 W Carson St, is Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, the county hospital, with 415. Two more are Kaiser hospitals: Kaiser Foundation Hospital Downey at 9333 Imperial Highway, with 424 beds, and Kaiser Foundation Hospital South Bay at 25825 South Vermont Avenue in Harbor City, with 257. Neither is in network unless you have a Kaiser plan. We took the bed counts from the state's hospital licensing records in September 2026. For the other four, look past the company name on your Medicare Advantage card. The medical groups the plan works through set its hospital list, so even plans from one insurer can lead to different hospitals and different doctors. The groups renegotiate their contracts, and a hospital in a plan's network one year can be out of it the next. If your family already uses one of these hospitals, start there. Before you choose, Lara pulls up the current directory for each plan on your list and looks for that hospital, your doctors and the pharmacy you use. Plans publish their changes every fall, and she checks again then.
Nearly two in three people in Compton speak Spanish at home
In Compton, 63.9 percent of people age 5 and up speak Spanish at home, and 34.8 percent speak only English. In 90221 the Spanish figure reaches 68.3 percent. If your father would rather hear it all in Spanish and you read the forms in English, Lara can run the review in either language or switch between them as you go. Anyone who helps with the decision is welcome to sit in, and no one has to translate.
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 Compton
Goulson Insurance Services Inc. is an independent insurance agency, and our agents work as licensed brokers for Compton 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.
After you enroll, and coverage beyond Medicare
Once your plan starts, Lara is still the one to call. She will get a doctor's office on the line with you, untangle a billing mistake, or call the plan with you when it denies a claim. Long term care, life insurance and final expense coverage are part of her work too. She takes those up in a separate conversation, not during your Medicare plan review. More than half of Compton households own their home. For homeowners, that conversation should include long term care: the cost of care if you ever need it, and where the house stands under Medi-Cal's rules.
Anywhere in 90220, 90221 or 90222, Lara takes calls and texts at (818) 472-5484.
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