Long Beach, California

Long Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Long Beach lost 14,692 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -861. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 338th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Long Beach is 12.2 times that size.

Long Beach covers 50.67 square miles of land and 27.18 of water, for 8,899 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Long Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Long Beach is in

All of Long Beach's residents live in Los Angeles County, which had 9,757,179 residents in 2024. Long Beach holds 4.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Long Beach

14 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Long Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 90802, 90803, 90804, 90805, 90806, 90807, 90808, 90810, 90813, 90814, 90815, 90822, 90831, 90840. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Long Beach is

The Census internal point of Long Beach is at 33.780800, -118.168200. Sacramento, the capital, is 379.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Los Angeles, CA (3,878,704 people), 21.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntington Beach, CA, 11.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Long Beach

At 33.78° N, Long Beach gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Long Beach daylight page.

Places near Long Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Signal Hill, 1.6 miles away, with 11,279 people.