A typical Long Beach home is worth about $348,000
Down 1.2% in a year, 41% below the Washington typical home.
What kind of housing town is Long Beach?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 6.6 years of income
More than across Washington (6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $136K short of a typical Long Beach home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010 a month here, $1,020 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Long Beach’s typical property tax (0.71% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
59% of Long Beach households own their home
Half of Long Beach’s homes were built before 1974.
Washington: 64% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Up 14.9% in five years
Faster than Washington (11.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Long Beach | Washington |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $173,000 | $326,000 |
| 2018 | $180,000 | $362,000 |
| 2019 | $198,000 | $390,000 |
| 2020 | $223,000 | $413,000 |
| 2021 | $260,000 | $471,000 |
| 2022 | $329,000 | $554,000 |
| 2023 | $341,000 | $572,000 |
| 2024 | $341,000 | $582,000 |
| 2025 | $348,000 | $605,000 |
| 2026 | $353,000 | $601,000 |
| August 2026 | $348,000 | $592,000 |
A typical Long Beach home worth $165K in September 2016 is worth about $348K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010
Renters already here pay a median of $741, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Pacific County, WA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
12 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 12 new homes in Long Beach in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $2.9 million to build. That's 6.7 per 1,000 residents, faster than across Washington (4.6). Over the past 10 years, Long Beach has permitted 124 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Long Beach gained 296 residents while 85 new homes were permitted: about 3.5 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. Across Washington: 2.7 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 11 | 7 | 4 | $3.5 million |
| 2025 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $2.9 million |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| 2023 | 8 | 6 | 2 | $2.3 million |
| 2022 | 10 | 6 | 4 | $2.1 million |
| 2021 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $3.7 million |
| 2020 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2019 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2018 | 45 | 8 | 37 | $8.4 million |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1 million |
| 2016 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $874,000 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $832,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $139,000 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $694,000 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $531,000 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $142,000 |
| 2008 | 10 | 7 | 3 | $1.2 million |
| 2007 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $2.8 million |
| 2006 | 22 | 12 | 10 | $4.2 million |
| 2005 | 27 | 27 | 0 | $4.3 million |
| 2004 | 27 | 19 | 8 | $3.7 million |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $350,000 |
| 2002 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $350,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $350,000 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $350,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.