THE LONG BEACH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes setting.
Long Beach city has 2.22 square miles of land in Nassau County. Its Census reference point is in Barrier Islands/Coastal Marshes, within Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens.
Sandy coastal landscapes combine beaches, dunes, bays and marshes with oak-pine woodland. These pine-barrens settings form a transition between warmer southern coasts and rockier shores farther north.
Regional context: Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Long Beach and Nassau County
Long Beach is associated with Nassau County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Long Beach by land and water
The Census records 1.68 square miles of water within Long Beach, or 43.1% of its total area. It is 5.8 percentage points higher than the 37.2% recorded for Nassau County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Long Beach city has 12.7 times the land area of nearby Harbor Isle CDP (0.17 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

