Homes for Sale in Long Beach currently number 187 active listings with a median asking price of $2,300,000 (CRMLS, September 2026). The median lot in Long Beach measures 5,608 sq ft.
The first decision most buyers face here is geographic. The inland districts offer the city’s most attainable entry points, and buyers working with a budget near the lower end of the range will find the most inventory there. Move toward the water and both the price and the product change: Belmont Shore and Naples Island trade in a different tier entirely, with the beach lifestyle priced into every listing. Because that spread is so wide, comparing Long Beach homes for sale on citywide averages tells you very little — you need neighborhood-level pricing to understand what you’re actually looking at.
It also helps to remember that this is a self-contained metropolitan center, not a bedroom community feeding into Los Angeles. With roughly 470,000 residents, a major university, and a working port driving maritime employment, buyers can weigh commute and daily life against local jobs and amenities rather than assuming a drive north every morning.
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Long Beach is one of the Port of LA Cities region’s distinct communities, long beach is california’s seventh-largest city and los angeles county’s second-largest — an independent metropolitan center of approximately 470,000 residents where the port of long beach, cal state long beach, the aquarium of the pacific, and the belmont shore beach lifestyle create a complete city with its own identity, economy, and residential diversity ranging from affordable inland neighborhoods to multi-million dollar waterfront estates within a regional zone defined by its maritime heritage, the port’s logistical and industrial employment, the beach access that Long Beach and San Pedro provide, and the working-class residential character that the port’s employment base sustains across multiple communities at the southern edge of Los Angeles County.
The school districts serving the Port of LA Cities region vary significantly. Long Beach Unified is the third-largest school district in California, with strong magnet and specialized school programs alongside the challenges of serving a large, diverse urban population. Lakewood Unified serves Lakewood with above-average academic outcomes for the region. Los Angeles Unified serves the Harbor neighborhoods (San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway) with the LAUSD’s characteristic campus-level variability. The specific school assignment for any address should be verified with the relevant district office.
The 405 Freeway, 710 Freeway, and 91 Freeway provide the region’s primary freeway connectivity to the broader Los Angeles metropolitan area. The A Line (Blue Line) Metro connects Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles with stations throughout the Long Beach urban core. The Long Beach Airport (also known as LGB) provides an alternative to LAX for regional air travel — smaller, less congested, and accessible within 15 minutes from most of the Port of LA Cities zone. The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach collectively employ thousands of workers directly and indirectly through the logistics, trucking, warehousing, and maritime service industries they generate.
The waterfront redevelopment projects along San Pedro’s West Harbor and the Long Beach waterfront are reshaping the harbor region’s residential desirability — new retail, restaurant, and entertainment facilities on the waterfront are transforming former industrial spaces into the kind of activated urban waterfront that catalyzes residential investment in surrounding neighborhoods. For buyers who are timing their entry into the harbor region’s residential market, the waterfront development trajectory is a significant factor in the long-term residential value outlook for communities closest to the revitalized waterfront infrastructure.
Long Beach is California’s seventh-largest city and one of the most economically and culturally complex cities in the state — a port city whose working waterfront coexists with the convention center, the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Queen Mary (the historic ocean liner now a hotel and attraction), and the thriving urban neighborhood life of Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls, the East Village Arts District, and the diverse communities that make up the city’s 50+ recognized neighborhoods. The Port of Long Beach is one of the two sides of the San Pedro Bay port complex (with the Port of LA), together processing 40% of US container imports; the port’s economic contribution is the foundation on which Long Beach’s economy rests, sustaining the logistics, transportation, and trade-services employment that the port economy requires alongside the city’s diverse retail, healthcare (Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, St. Mary Medical Center), and education (Cal State Long Beach) sectors.
Long Beach’s residential market reflects the city’s geographic and demographic diversity — the Belmont Shore beachside residential market (single-family homes and condos in the $1.2M-$3M range) contrasts with the North Long Beach working-class residential market ($500K-$800K for single-family homes) and the midtown condo and apartment market that the urban residential corridor between Downtown and Belmont Shore sustains. The city-wide Long Beach Unified School District (approximately 60,000 students) provides the public education infrastructure with quality variation across the district’s campuses that buyers must research by specific address assignment.
Long Beach’s 50+ recognized neighborhoods create the residential diversity within a single large city that few California municipalities can match: Belmont Shore’s beachside urban village (walkable 2nd Street, Alamitos Bay, and the beach), the historic craftsman district of Bungalow Heaven (the historic preservation area whose 1910s-1920s bungalow architecture creates the most complete craftsman residential district in the LA Basin), the upscale residential character of Los Altos and Wrigley (the family neighborhoods with good LBUSD schools and the larger lot residential character), the diverse midtown corridor (the commercial and residential streets of the city’s demographic center), and the North Long Beach working-class residential communities (the most affordable and the most racially diverse section of the city) create the geographic range that a city of 466,000 residents spanning the coastal waterfront to the inland residential plateau sustains. For buyers evaluating Long Beach as a residential market, the neighborhood selection within the city is as consequential as the city selection itself — the Belmont Shore buyer is making a different lifestyle and market decision than the Bungalow Heaven buyer or the North Long Beach buyer, even within the same city limits and the same Long Beach Unified School District.
San Pedro is the historic maritime community at the tip of the Palos Verdes Peninsula’s base — a neighborhood with a distinct waterfront identity anchored by the Port of Los Angeles’s terminal facilities, the USS Iowa museum, the Ports O’ Call Village (being redeveloped as the West Harbor waterfront development), and the historic downtown that the Croatian, Italian, and other European maritime immigrant communities built in the early twentieth century. San Pedro’s artistic community — the last remaining working-class artist enclave in the Los Angeles basin that maintains genuine affordability alongside genuine maritime character — gives it a cultural identity that distinguishes it from the purely industrial port communities that Wilmington represents.
Lakewood is the region’s quintessential postwar planned residential community — developed in the early 1950s from former sugar beet fields as one of the largest planned housing developments in American history, where 17,000 homes were constructed at an unprecedented scale that made Lakewood a model for the mass-produced postwar suburb. Lakewood’s Lakewood Center shopping mall (one of the nation’s first), the Long Beach airport proximity, and the Lakewood Unified School District’s solid academic performance sustain a stable residential identity six decades after the original development. Signal Hill’s elevated terrain provides hilltop views over the Long Beach basin, and the city’s small size (approximately 11,000 residents) and independent governance allow it to maintain a character distinct from the surrounding Long Beach geography.
The 405, 710, and 91 Freeways provide the harbor region’s primary freeway connectivity — the 405 running north to LAX and the Westside, the 710 running north to downtown LA and the I-10 connection, and the 91 running east to the Inland Empire and Riverside County. The Blue Line (A Line) Metro provides rail transit from downtown Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles (approximately 55 minutes). The harbor region’s freeway and port proximity makes it a logistics employment hub and a commuter destination that draws workers from across the southern Los Angeles County area.
Long Beach is tracked as a distinct sub-market of Port of la Cities, and its figures diverge from the parent average. The measurements below come from CRMLS listing data as of September 2026.
Long Beach trades close to asking price. Across 411 recorded sales, homes traded at a median of 99.5% of their original asking price after a median 16 days on market (CRMLS, September 2026). Asking prices are what sellers hope for; these are the numbers they accepted.
Negotiating room is not evenly distributed across price. Measured across recorded sales in this dataset, the gap between asking and accepted widens sharply at the top of the market.
The Port of Los Angeles Cities encompasses the residential communities clustered around and adjacent to the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach — the busiest port complex in the Western Hemisphere — including the LA neighborhoods of San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, and Harbor Gateway, and the independent cities of Long Beach, Carson, Lakewood, and Signal Hill. The 2026 median home price across these communities ranges from approximately $600,000 to $800,000 for entry-level and working-class communities like Wilmington and Harbor Gateway to $900,000 to $1.3 million in Lakewood and Signal Hill’s premium residential sections, with Long Beach spanning the entire range from its affordable inland districts to its premium Belmont Shore and Naples beachfront neighborhoods.
Long Beach is the region’s most significant residential city — a city of approximately 470,000 residents and the second-largest in Los Angeles County, where the Port of Long Beach’s employment, the California State University Long Beach campus, the Aquarium of the Pacific, and the urban beach lifestyle of Belmont Shore create a complete city with its own distinct identity outside of the Los Angeles metropolitan context. Long Beach’s residential neighborhoods range from the historic craftsman homes of Bluff Park to the 1950s ranch houses of Los Altos to the multi-million-dollar beachfront estates of Belmont Shore and Naples Island, providing a full price spectrum within a single city that functions as a distinct metropolitan center in its own right.
The logistics and distribution industry concentration around the ports — warehouses, trucking terminals, container yards, and the supporting industrial services that the world’s busiest port complex generates — creates significant working-class and blue-collar employment that shapes the residential character of Wilmington, Harbor City, and the industrial zones adjacent to the port terminals. The port’s economic scale ($200 billion or more in annual trade value) sustains a regional employment base that indirectly benefits residential demand across the entire southern Los Angeles County area, even for residents whose employment is not directly port-related.
The Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach harbor complex — the busiest container port in the Western Hemisphere, processing over 9 million TEUs annually through its 17 cargo terminals — creates the industrial and employment identity that the surrounding residential communities (San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, Carson, Long Beach, Lakewood, and Signal Hill) are built around. San Pedro’s transformation from a working port town to a waterfront destination has accelerated with the Ports O’Call Village redevelopment (now West Harbor), the AltaSea ocean research facility, and the investment in the Downtown San Pedro waterfront that seeks to create the mixed-use urban waterfront character that ports-turned-attractions in Baltimore, Boston, and San Diego have demonstrated. The San Pedro community’s Greek, Croatian, and Italian fishing heritage creates the distinctive cultural identity that the neighborhood’s murals, the Croatian Cultural Center, and the San Pedro Fish Market sustain as residential development brings new demographics to the historic waterfront district.
Long Beach — the second-largest city in Los Angeles County, with approximately 466,000 residents — functions as a complete urban environment within the LA metropolitan area: the downtown waterfront (the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Queen Mary, the Convention Center), the diverse neighborhood fabric from Belmont Shore’s beach-adjacent restaurant scene to the historic Bungalow Heaven residential district, and the Port of Long Beach’s massive economic contribution sustain a city identity that provides the full-service urban lifestyle at pricing typically $300K-$500K below comparable Westside LA addresses. Signal Hill’s elevated mesa within Long Beach’s urban fabric provides the neighborhood character and the oil derrick history (the small city was once the highest-producing oil field per square mile in the world) that creates Signal Hill’s distinct identity within the Long Beach metropolitan landscape. Lakewood’s 1950s planned community character — one of the first and most studied planned postwar suburbs in America — provides the established residential stability that Lakewood’s community identity sustains.
Long Beach’s 2026 median home price ranges widely by neighborhood — from approximately $600,000 in the more affordable inland districts to $1.5 to $4 million in Belmont Shore and Naples Island — making it one of the most diverse residential markets in southern California within a single city boundary. Current specific pricing data for Long Beach is available from The Knight Group. The Port of LA Cities region spans a wide price range from working-class communities like Wilmington to premium coastal neighborhoods in Long Beach’s Belmont Shore; any specific community’s pricing requires the context of its position within the region’s residential hierarchy.
The Port of LA Cities communities are approximately 20 to 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles by freeway. The 710 Freeway provides the most direct connection, with off-peak travel times of 30 to 45 minutes extending to 60 to 90 minutes during peak commute hours. The A Line Metro from downtown Long Beach to downtown LA takes approximately 55 minutes. For Port of LA Cities residents who work in downtown LA, the commute is among the longer in the Los Angeles County context, though the trade-off of lower housing costs and beach access typically motivates the lifestyle choice.
Beach proximity in the Port of LA Cities region depends on the specific community. Long Beach’s Belmont Shore and Naples have direct beach access; San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach is accessible by car within 5 minutes of most San Pedro addresses. Carson, Lakewood, and the Harbor neighborhoods are 5 to 15 minutes from the nearest beach by car. The region’s southern position means the ocean’s moderating influence on temperatures is present across the area even for communities not directly adjacent to the beach.
Belmont Shore and Belmont Heights are the signature residential neighborhoods of Long Beach’s southeastern beachside geography — Belmont Shore’s 2nd Street commercial strip (walkable restaurants, boutiques, bars, and the access to the beach and Alamitos Bay) and the tight-knit neighborhood character of the Italian-influenced streets create the urban beach community that consistently attracts buyers from across the LA Basin seeking the beachside lifestyle at pricing below Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, or Laguna Beach. The Alamitos Bay Marina and the Naples Island canals (Long Beach’s Venice-adjacent canal neighborhood) create the waterfront lifestyle infrastructure that Belmont Shore and the surrounding water-adjacent neighborhoods access. Belmont Heights, immediately north of Belmont Shore, provides the craftsman and historic residential character of a slightly older neighborhood at a modest pricing discount to Belmont Shore’s premium beach-adjacent tier. The combination of walkable commercial streets, beach access, the Long Beach Unified system’s better-performing east-side campuses, and the vibrant neighborhood identity creates the residential combination that sustains Belmont Shore’s position as Long Beach’s most sought residential address.
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