Long Beach, NY population, income and ZIP codes

Long Beach city is a small city in New York, with 34,741 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #32 of 1,292 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 45.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Long Beach city earn a median of $130,795 a year, 66.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 42% above the $91,806 median for the 847 New York cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 7.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Long Beach city is valued at $661,500, 118% above the national figure and 109% above the $315,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,377 a month, 69.1% above the national figure, or roughly $28,524 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.8% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 63.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.