ZIP Code 90802 — Long Beach, California

The median home in 90802 is valued at $521,800 against a median household income of $69,613, a price-to-income ratio of 7.5. That is above the 6.7 median across the 1,558 California ZIP codes with published housing data, and well past the 3.0 ratio that marks an attainable market nationally, so buying here on a local median income requires substantial savings or a second income. Within Los Angeles County, 90802 ranks 78 of 275 ZIPs on affordability (1 = lowest ratio); the county median ratio is 9.2. Renting takes 30.3% of median household income (median rent $1,755 a month), above the 30% cost-burden threshold.

90802 ranks 1,081 of 1,558 statewide on median household income and 906 of 1,558 on median home value; its income is below the $87,339 Los Angeles County median. 21% of households own their home, far below the 64% statewide ZIP median, so most residents rent. 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, above the 31% median, and the poverty rate is 16.5%, far above the 10.8% statewide ZIP median. Unemployment stands at 7.8%.

With 6,156 residents per square mile across 6.5 square miles of land, 90802 is far denser than the statewide ZIP median of 1,120 (rank 350 of 1,558). This is predominantly single-family residential with suburban street patterns.