Long Beach, California.
Typical home $852,391 (+2.4% in a year), asking rent $2,412 (+2.4%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,259 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,127 +2%
- $832,264$852,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $120,041 +16%
- $732,350$852,391 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Long Beach$4,474
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Long Beach, CA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Long Beach, CA rose 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Long Beach runs $3,458/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,634 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,870 a month against $2,412 rent: a $4,474 mortgage payment, plus $483 property tax and $913 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Long Beach
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,870
- Renting$2,412
- Mortgage only$4,474
Property tax · $483/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Los Angeles County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $913/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California
Long Beach is a city of 466,742 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $87,430 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 41% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 59% are rented. Unemployment in Long Beach was 5.0% in August 2026, and Los Angeles County had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Long Beach is a large coastal city, one of the biggest in California, and its residents are somewhat younger than the typical American. Most households rent rather than own, and incomes run a little below the county's, while homes and rents are costly. Winters are mild and summers are warm, with only a little rain and no real snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Long Beach Unified, California State University-Long Beach and the Veterans Health Administration. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The Long Beach Street Circuit, a race track, is in or beside town. Dignity Health Sports Park, a stadium, is a short drive away. Disneyland, an amusement park, is a longer drive away, as is the Getty Center, a museum.
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- 170,927households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Los Angeles County had 4,525,460 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 67° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Beach Daugherty Field weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Long Beach
- Long Beach UnifiedSchool district5,403FTE
- California State University-Long BeachUniversity or college4,320
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs3,822
- Traffic ManagementFlagging services1,900
- Long Beach City CollegeTwo-year college1,649
- California ResourcesCrude petroleum production1,525
- Relativity SpaceSpace vehicles, complete, manufacturing1,099
- Vast, Inc. (Long Beach)Search and detection systems and instruments manufacturing1,095
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 192 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 25,899 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Long Beach’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Long Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Beach$852,391
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Long Beach listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Long Beach24.71%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Long Beach24
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Long Beach806
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Long Beach235
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Long Beach$842,108
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Long Beach100.16%
Zip codes with a Long Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Long Beach
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90805 | Long Beach | 92,402 | $2,168 | $711,273 |
| 90813 | Long Beach | 51,241 | $1,923 | $578,837 |
| 90815 | Long Beach | 43,023 | $2,877 | $1,041,731 |
| 90806 | Long Beach | 41,664 | $1,909 | $784,263 |
| 90802 | Long Beach | 40,434 | $2,605 | $475,752 |
| 90808 | Long Beach | 39,317 | $2,949 | $1,032,317 |
| 90804 | Long Beach | 38,076 | $2,225 | $688,308 |
| 90810 | Long Beach | 35,833 | $2,263 | $708,740 |
| 90807 | Long Beach | 33,101 | $2,340 | $952,085 |
| 90803 | Long Beach | 31,526 | $2,538 | $1,330,895 |
| 90814 | Long Beach | 19,471 | $2,489 | $987,328 |