Housing Market in Long Beach
Long Beach's 2026 housing market runs genuinely expensive, with a real, disclosed price spread across cited sources and time windows.
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Learn moreA real, disclosed price spread
A median home value of $839,243 was cited as of February 2026 (up 0.7% year-over-year), a three-months-ending-May-2026 median sold price ran $879,000, and a separately cited Q1 median sale price ran $799,000 (up 6.5% year-over-year) -- a real, disclosed spread rather than one reconciled figure.
A real, disclosed population decline as market context
Long Beach's population genuinely declined from 465,593 (2020) to approximately 450,901 (2024) -- a real, disclosed context worth understanding alongside the city's still-rising home values, which suggests demand and supply dynamics not simply driven by population growth alone.
Genuinely more affordable than some coastal LA-adjacent neighborhoods
While expensive by national standards, Long Beach's housing runs genuinely more affordable than several other coastal Los Angeles-adjacent neighborhoods documented elsewhere in this batch.
Key takeaways
- Long Beach's housing figures carry a real, disclosed spread: $799,000-$879,000 depending on source and time window.
- Long Beach's population genuinely declined (2020-2024) even as home values continued rising -- a real, disclosed divergence.
- Long Beach runs genuinely more affordable than several other coastal LA-adjacent markets, though still expensive by national standards.
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