Cleaning Services in Oildale, CA

Oildale is an unincorporated community of about 36,100 people sitting three and a half miles north-northwest of downtown Bakersfield at an elevation of 469 feet. That number is worth pausing on: it makes Oildale the largest unincorporated community in the metro and larger than every incorporated city in Kern County except Bakersfield and Delano itself. It is also the one part of greater Bakersfield with no incorporated portion at all, which is a large part of why nobody's service-area page bothers to cover it.

It is an oil town and it has never been anything else. Samuel Dickinson subdivided his land here in 1909 and the community that grew on it was called Waits and then North Side before the first post office arrived in 1916. The Kern River Oil Field lies immediately east. Meadows Field Airport, Bakersfield's commercial airport, sits three miles northwest of downtown in the Oildale area, and during the Cold War a factory here disguised as a tire plant assembled U-2 spy planes. Merle Haggard grew up in Oildale and Buck Owens made his home ground here -- the two men who carried the Bakersfield Sound out of this valley -- and NASCAR's Kevin Harvick and Jonathan Davis of Korn came out of the same few streets.

The housing is older, smaller and mostly single-story, and the cleaning follows from that. Original bathrooms with real grout rather than a surround. Floor vents and wall returns that have been running for decades. Window tracks and door casings that hold more dust than anything out in the open. Add an oil field immediately to the east and a valley that ranks first in the nation for year-round particle pollution, and the parts of the house that need attention here are the ones a quick pass skips entirely.

The other thing that shapes the work is the clock. Oildale runs on shift schedules -- field, plant, airport, warehouse and distribution work -- and a nine-to-five cleaning window is no use to somebody who sleeps through it. We schedule around your shift instead of around ours, and we hold the slot rather than moving it every other week.

We cover Oildale (93308) with house cleaning on a weekly, biweekly or monthly schedule, deep cleaning, move-in and move-out cleaning, and commercial work. That ZIP carries the USPS city name Bakersfield and covers north Bakersfield as well -- Oildale has no postal city of its own -- so a Bakersfield postmark on an Oildale address is normal rather than a mistake.