Long Beach, Minnesota.
Typical home $367,279 (+1.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$962 (+100%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $3,863 +1%
- $363,416$367,279 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,493 +16%
- $316,786$367,279 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$1,928
- Minnesota$1,831
- 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, MN rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Long Beach, Pope County, Minnesota
Long Beach is a city of 338 people in Pope County. Half its households earn more than $92,361 a year and half less, against $76,220 across Pope County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Pope County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pope County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small city on the shore of Lake Minnewaska, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run higher than across Pope County, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also common. A good number of people work from home. Across Pope County, some of the largest workplaces are Glacial Ridge Hospital, the Minnewaska School District and FAST Global Solutions, a maker of industrial machinery.
Things to do. Lake Minnewaska is in or beside town, so the water is close at hand. Glacial Lakes State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Malmedal Lake. Lake Reno and Turtle Lake are also a short drive from town.
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- 145households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 15%work from home
What people in Pope County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 4,400 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 46 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenwood 2WNW weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- FAST Global SolutionsIndustrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing244
- Glacial Ridge HospitalCritical access hospital232FTE
- Minnewaska School DistrictSchool district218FTE
- Clyde MachinesTinfoil not made in rolling mills108
- Massman Automation, VillardPackaging machinery manufacturing64
- Minnewaska Lutheran HomeNursing homes57
- Palmer Bus Service of MinnewaskaSchool bus services53
- DyCast SpecialtiesAluminum die-casting foundries39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,176 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 moderate. 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 Pope County.
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$367,279
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
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 Beach5
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.