City
Long Beach
Long Beach is a city record. City or town offices may handle local rules inside their limits, while county offices still handle records, taxes, courts, and many services.
Starting point
Confirm the address is inside local limits first.
If the address is inside Long Beach, city or town offices may handle local permits, code, and services. If it is outside limits, county routing may be the better first stop.
A mailing city is not always the same as city government jurisdiction.
2025 population
450,469
Land area
50.672 sq mi
Water area
27.178 sq mi
Directory notes
Local layers to keep on the same page.
Confirm city or town limits.
A mailing address can use a nearby place name. If the address is outside limits, county offices may handle permits, code, and land-use routes.
County still matters.
Los Angeles County can still matter for assessor, tax collector, recorder, court, public health, social service, and election records.
Some layers are separate.
Water, sewer, fire, school, utilities, coast, earthquake maps, wildfire zones, parks, and trails may point outside city hall.
County layer
County shown for Long Beach
Practical notes
Office, map, permit, and paperwork notes for Long Beach
Place note · Cars and driving · Reviewed July 6, 2026
Long Beach Transit is its own local bus layer
Long Beach Transit handles local bus trips, while TAP, Metro rail, visitor routes, and waterfront trips each need their own quick check.
Place note · Cars and driving · Reviewed July 5, 2026
Long Beach street sweeping depends on the posted curb
Long Beach street sweeping parking rules depend on posted signs, weekday time windows, holiday exceptions, and colored curbs that may still be enforced on holidays.
Place note · Home and property · Reviewed July 4, 2026
AlertLongBeach is the city alert signup to know
Long Beach's emergency alerts page explains how AlertLongBeach sends city emergency, severe weather, and operations alerts by text, voice, or email.
Place note · Rules and licenses · Reviewed July 4, 2026
Long Beach business licenses start with the business type
Long Beach routes business-license questions through Financial Management, with different paths for online applications, in-person help, renewals, location changes, and required extra permits.
Place note · Home and property · Reviewed July 4, 2026
Long Beach trash questions have a request navigator
Long Beach's refuse page separates special pickups, dumped items, cart changes, and missed pickups into separate online request forms.
Place note · Home and property · Reviewed July 4, 2026
Long Beach tsunami planning starts with knowing the zone
Long Beach encourages residents and workers to check whether a home, job, school, or regular stop is in a tsunami hazard area and to know the route out.
Almanac notes
Stories and local context near Long Beach
Place note · Outdoors
El Dorado Nature Center gives Long Beach a quiet habitat pocket
El Dorado Nature Center sits between the San Gabriel River and the 605 Freeway, giving Long Beach trails, water, trees, and a calmer nature stop inside the city.
Place note · History and culture
Rancho Los Alamitos carries Tongva and rancho layers together
Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach brings together Tongva place memory, the sacred village of Povuu'ngna, a rancho house, gardens, barns, and city-owned public history.
Place note · History and culture
The Port of Long Beach keeps the city tied to the working harbor
The Port of Long Beach gives the city a working-harbor layer where ships, rail, trucks, jobs, air programs, public projects, and regional goods movement meet.
Place note · History and culture
The Queen Mary gives Long Beach a ship with a whole second life
The Queen Mary began as a grand 1930s ocean liner and has been part of the Long Beach shoreline since 1967.
Place note · Outdoors
El Dorado East gives Long Beach lakes, trails, and picnic space
El Dorado East Regional Park has 388.2 acres with bike trails, fishing lakes, picnic areas, playgrounds, archery, and a nature center.
County layer · History and culture
Mentryville gives Santa Clarita an old oil-canyon story
Mentryville and Pico Canyon add an early California oil layer to Santa Clarita, with trails, old buildings, and the story of Pico No. 4.
County layer · History and culture
The Museum of Neon Art gives Glendale a glow-in-the-dark art stop
Glendale's Museum of Neon Art preserves historic neon signs and electric art, adding a bright Los Angeles County story to Brand Boulevard.
County layer · History and culture
A Playhouse mural turns Palmdale's stage into a city story
The 152-foot mural on the Palmdale Playhouse blends theater scenes with local details, including the old schoolhouse, Joshua trees, and a small B-2 silhouette.