Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Yes, by almost any measure. Long Beach earns an A+, 51st among New York's 745 graded towns. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 94% of U.S. towns, CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 93% of the country, and the median household earns $141K. The exception is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $807K, 8.1 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income. Long Beach’s median rent is $2,515 a month, against $1,098 a month in New York’s towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. Long Beach is among the most walkable places in the country. Long Beach is home to Rabbinical College of Long Island.
Where Long Beach beats most towns.
Granada Towers
Its founding year, 1623, is the earliest of any New York town we grade.
Census counts: 282 in 1920, 35,029 in 2020. The archive holds 11 old photos and papers going back to 1882 and 6 maps from 1897 on.
7 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within New York), ordered by how far Long Beach is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for walkability (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D− for cost of living (better than 1%), so the A+ overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Long Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaMadison Square Garden
Big draw21 mi GardenCentral Park40.0M visitors a year
Big draw21 mi TheatreStudio 54
Big draw17 mi BeachConey Island
Big draw21 mi MuseumMetropolitan Museum of Art2.0M visitors a year
Big draw27 mi Stadium & arenaMetLife StadiumMadison Square Garden: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Central Park: Ed Yourdon from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Studio 54: Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Coney Island: OptimumPx, Public domain · Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 · MetLife Stadium: babyknight, CC BY 2.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Long Beach, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Long Beach.
Long Beach has less tooth loss than most of New York, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of New York and has a long record of flood insurance claims.
Violent crime is rare: 25 reported in 2025, 0.7 per 1,000 residents.
Long Beach’s property crime rate is 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
| Long Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.9 per 1,000 residents | 7.6 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 0.8 | 1.6 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Its A− for schools comes with a D− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $807K.
Its public schools are run by the Long Beach City School District. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindell Boulevard SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 462 | B+ |
| Torah High School Long Beach PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 181 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within NY on state tests and graduation
Its widest gap with New York is tooth loss: 6.5% of those 65+ have lost all their teeth, against 12.8% statewide. Against the 3,498 U.S. towns with household incomes like Long Beach’s, it is healthier than 73%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
15% of adults have been diagnosed with depression in Long Beach. Long Beach beats the New York average on 21 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 8.4% of adults smoke cigarettes in Long Beach.
| Long Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 21% | 23% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 8.4% | 13% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Long Beach | NY |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.5% | 12.8% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.5% | 17.2% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.3% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
At 8.1 years of the New York metro’s $99K median household income, the typical home (about $807K) costs more against local pay than in 89% of New York towns; that ratio is one input to its D− for cost of living.
Typical home values rose 4.9% in the year to September 2026. 66% of Long Beach households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
| Long Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 4.9% | 5.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 0.4 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The average commute for its 14,033 working residents takes 41.3 minutes, against 32.6 across New York.
Most working residents leave Long Beach for work: only 10% work in town. The average trip to work in Long Beach is 41 minutes. The top destinations are New York (43%), Hempstead (24%) and North Hempstead (6%).
| Long Beach | New York towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 41 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $141,000 | $82,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 19% | 12% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.6% | 9.5% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Long Beach has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 27° and about 26 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
7,672 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 897 properties have flooded more than once.
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 55% of U.S. communities. Since 1978, 7,672 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Long Beach.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
21 within 15 miles of the center of Long Beach
About 5 of every 100 Long Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across New York.
Coastal flooding makes up 15% of the storm damage FEMA expects here.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA · OpenStreetMap
7 places in Long Beach on the National Register of Historic Places.
19 notable people were born in Long Beach.
City in New York, United States
Long Beach is an oceanfront city in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island. The city rests on a central section of the Long Beach Barrier Island, which is the westernmost of the outer barrier islands off the South Shore of Long Island. The city's population was 35,029 at the 2020 United States census. The City of Long Beach was incorporated in 1922, and is nicknamed "The City by the Sea" (the Latin form, Civitas ad mare, is the city's motto). Long Beach is bordered by East Atlantic Beach to the west, and Lido Beach to the east, on the Long Beach Barrier Island—which in turn is surrounded by the Reynolds Channel to the north, east and west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. In 2022, Long…
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4 towns share a border with Long Beach.
| Town | NY rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Beach | #51 | A+ | D− | A | A− | A |
| Lido Beach | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Barnum Island | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| East Atlantic Beach | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lawrence | #244 | B+ | D− | — | C+ | A+ |
Lawrence reports no FBI crime data of its own. Lido Beach, Barnum Island and East Atlantic Beach aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Long Beach with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Yes, by almost any measure. Long Beach grades A+ overall, better than 95% of U.S. towns and #51 of 745 in New York. It grades A for health, A for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.
19 notable people were born here, including Mike Portnoy and Ed Lauter.
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