Long Beach, Mississippi

Long Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Long Beach added 407 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +161. Among 61 Mississippi places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by -1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Mississippi has 12,656 people, so Long Beach is 1.4 times that size.

Long Beach covers 10.24 square miles of land and 3.75 of water, for 1,681 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Long Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Long Beach is in

All of Long Beach's residents live in Harrison County, which had 213,730 residents in 2024. Long Beach holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Long Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Long Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39560. 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 30.354500, -89.162700. Jackson, the capital, is 147.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gulfport, MS (74,621 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Orleans, LA, 50.6 miles away.

Daylight in Long Beach

At 30.35° N, Long Beach gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Long Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Pass Christian, 5.2 miles away, with 6,429 people.