Long Beach, New York

Long Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Long Beach lost 24 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +84. Among 170 New York places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in New York has 10,324 people, so Long Beach is 3.4 times that size.

Long Beach covers 2.22 square miles of land and 1.68 of water, for 15,665 people per square mile of land. The median New York place of 5,000+ has 3,760, so Long Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Long Beach is in

All of Long Beach's residents live in Nassau County, which had 1,392,438 residents in 2024. Long Beach holds 2.5% 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: 11561. 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 40.585800, -73.665400. Albany, the capital, is 142.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Valley Stream, NY (40,232 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 15.3 miles away.

Daylight in Long Beach

At 40.59° N, Long Beach gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 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 New York, measured between internal points. The closest is Island Park, 1.4 miles away, with 5,019 people.