The 10 Worst Long Beach Suburbs

The 10 Worst Long Beach Suburbs To Live For 2024

We’ll get the ball rolling with Cudahy, the absolute worst place to live around Long Beach according to the data.

And in the world of worst rankings, Cudahy beat the competition pretty handily thanks to scoring in the bottom 15% in three major categories. Income is the worst in the Long Beach area, and to make matters worse, the city ranks 10th worst when it comes to home values.

But hey, at least it’s cheap to live there. But there’s a reason for that… it’s Cudahy.

You won’t feel bad about not having a great income for the area. There aren’t a bunch of places to spend your money anyway.

Welcome to Huntington Park. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 12.3 miles to Long Beach. Income levels here are the 3rd lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $54,073 a year, which only goes so far even on a shoestring budget.

But on the bright side, there are a lot of fast food joints in the area.

Back up the highway we go for the third worst Long Beach suburb you can live in. You might have expected to see Compton on here. While the cost of living is low, your entertainment and work options are limited. And that’s an understatement.

In terms of numbers, it’s in the worst 15% for insurance, and the adult high school dropout rate is poor compared to other Long Beach suburbs.

But at least there are lovely parks to bring the kids during the day.

If you live in Lynwood, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the 12th lowest Long Beach suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the 2nd worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Long Beach. Remember, we looked at 97 cities for this study.

Lynwood is about 8.4 miles to downtown.

South El Monte has the distinction of being a Long Beach suburb. Which means that’s about all it has going for it.

All snarkiness aside, South El Monte has the 22nd lowest home values in the metro Long Beach area, where the median price is $697,787. The median income is $224,766.

South El Monte has an unemployment rate of 6.74% which ranks 28th worst.

Bell has 33,377 residents that probably know it’s a pretty crummy place to live when you look at the data. (Or, if you’ve ever been there, you don’t need to look at the data.)

Incomes are towards the bottom, and the poverty rate sits at 23.36344474555857%.

Ah, Bell Gardens. You rank as the 7th worst place to live around Long Beach.

It’s the place with the 44th most out of work residents in the Long Beach metro area (5.75%).

Pomona is a city about 28.4 miles from Long Beach, but Long Beach probably wishes it was further away. It ranks as the 8th worst burb for 2018.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a worse place to live. Pomona has the 17th most uninsured people, 2worst incomes, and has the 32nd highest unemployment rate (6.52%) in the entire Long Beach metro area.

Homes only cost $619,187 for a reason. That’s cheap for Long Beach standards.

If you absolutely have to live near Long Beach, then South Gate might be a place for you to consider as it’s only the 9th worst Long Beach suburb.

About 7.89% of residents are out of work.

Rounding out the ten worst Long Beach suburbs to call home is Commerce.

Located 12.8 miles outside the city, Commerces is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 77th highest unemployment rate (4.9%), and poverty is far above the area average.