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Long Beach City Intelligence

Long Beach is a Southern California port city within the Los Angeles metro with one of the largest U.S. container ports, light-rail transit access, high housing costs, and coastal-flooding and air-quality adaptation context. Long Beach is a north america city of about ~13M metro in United States. On the composite city-intelligence score, Long Beach sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (67/100).

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
Population
~13M metro
View of Long Beach, United States

Image credit: Image: Christophe.Finot / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5

Overall score

Use the Long Beach profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy planning, and climate resilience alongside Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco.

Overall67/100
Affordability36/100
Air quality54/100
Energy70/100

Overall city intelligence

Mixed

67/100

Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.

Data confidence

Directional

Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.

Verified utility layers

See country hub

Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.

Long Beach data table

The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.

Long Beach city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score67/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living36/100Long Beach's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality54/100Long Beach's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy70/100Long Beach's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety65/100Long Beach's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed69/100Long Beach's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk62/100Long Beach's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
Resilience62/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

Emergency and public safety in Long Beach

Local public safety guidance for Long Beach, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.

Verified
United States emergency contacts
ServiceNumberNotes
Universal emergency91124/7911 reaches police, fire, and emergency medical dispatch across the United States.

For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Long Beach, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the United States emergency profile.

Public safety sources

Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.

Healthcare and hospitals in Long Beach

Healthcare context for Long Beach, with national-level information from United States where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.

Verified

For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Long Beach, see the United States healthcare profile.

Official hospital registry

Medicare Care Compare

Federal directory for comparing Medicare-certified hospitals, nursing homes, and other care providers.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Healthcare sources

Each entry above is attributed to an official government, public health, or recognised health-system publisher. Confirm current information directly with these sources.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.

Transport and mobility in Long Beach

Local mobility context for Long Beach, with national-level context from United States where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.

Verified

For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Long Beach, see the United States transport profile.

Transport sources

Each entry above is attributed to an official transport authority, national operator, airport publisher, or government source. Confirm current information directly with these publishers.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.

Air quality dataset

Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Long Beach. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.

Air quality dataset for Long Beach

Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025

Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location

Source-attributed values for Long Beach will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.

Long Beach air-quality dataset coverage
MetricValueData yearStatus
Air qualityVerified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location.

Data provenance

Source attribution

  • Global City Intelligence — air-quality dataset

    Verified data unavailable
    Publisher
    Global City Intelligence
    Last verified
    2026-05-16

    The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).

Explore Long Beach modules

City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.

Cost of Living in Long Beach

Long Beach's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.

Air Quality in Long Beach

Long Beach's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.

Energy in Long Beach

Long Beach's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.

Safety in Long Beach

Long Beach's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.

Internet Speed in Long Beach

Long Beach's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.

Climate Risk in Long Beach

Long Beach's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.

City rankings

Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.

Cost of living in Long Beach

Cost of living estimates for Long Beach — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.

Visual guide to Long Beach

Source-attributed visual context for Long Beach using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.

Weekend trip planning guide for Long Beach

Weekend trip planning checklist for Long Beach — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.

Nearby weekend places from Long Beach

Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.

Estimate a monthly budget for Long Beach

Estimate a monthly budget for Long Beach using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.

Plan a trip budget for Long Beach

Plan a trip budget for Long Beach using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.

Nearby cities from Long Beach

Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Long Beach. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.

Anaheim, United States

Same region · about 29 km from Long Beach. Explore Anaheim's city intelligence profile.

Related collections

Regional discovery collections that include Long Beach — named natural regions grouping nearby nature, parks, lakes, coasts, and mountains for local-first day and weekend planning.

Themed collections

Theme-first discovery collections that include Long Beach — grouped by outdoor interest (mountains, lakes, coasts, forests, national parks) rather than geography.

Interpretation

Use the Long Beach profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy planning, and climate resilience alongside Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Its standout dimensions are energy (70/100) and internet speed (69/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (36/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.

Country context is available on the United States country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Long Beach appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.

Sources

4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.