Long Beach, Indiana.
Typical home $765,398 (+5.3% in a year). Michigan City-La Porte, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,427 (+153%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,768 +5%
- $726,630$765,398 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $175,974 +30%
- $589,424$765,398 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$4,017
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Long Beach, IN rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Beach, LaPorte County, Indiana
Long Beach is a town of 1,189 people in LaPorte County. Half its households earn more than $121,827 a year and half less, against $71,055 across LaPorte County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in LaPorte County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 small lakeside town whose residents are older than in most American communities, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, relatively few people live in poverty, and a great many adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are worth far more than is typical, and winters are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing and lows well below it, while July is warm without being extreme.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. A good share work from home, and the typical commute for the rest is a moderate one. Across LaPorte County, the largest workplaces include Franciscan Health Michigan City, the LaPorte Community School Corp and Howmet - La Porte Castings, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, Washington Park Zoo is the nearest of the better-known outings, and Trail Creek and the Galien River offer quiet water close to home. Farther afield, Indiana Dunes National Park is the best known of the nearby natural areas, and Indiana Dunes State Park lies in the same direction. Both are a longer drive away.
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- 589households
- 73%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 33%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. LaPorte County had 40,196 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 31° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 64°. About 65 inches of snow and 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laporte weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in LaPorte County
- Franciscan Health Michigan CityGeneral hospital942FTE
- LaPorte Community School CorpSchool district860FTE
- Howmet - La Porte CastingsFoundries, nonferrous metals828
- Michigan City Area SchoolsSchool district716FTE
- La Porte Hospital CompanyGeneral medical and surgical hospitals667
- Hitachi Global Air PowerCompressors, air and gas, general purpose-type, manufacturing649
- Laporte HospitalGeneral hospital574FTE
- Boyd GamingHotel casino570
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 103 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,711 people in all across the county; Long Beach has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
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 low. 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 LaPorte County and the Michigan City-La Porte, IN 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$765,398
- Indiana$257,165
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Long Beach10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
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.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.