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Seal Beach city, California: commercial real estate data.
Seal Beach city is a Census city of 24,722 people across 11.30 square miles of land, in Orange County. Median household income is $85,964, 76.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 23 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $11.3 m.
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Seal Beach
What Seal Beach is
- Census place typecity
- Land area11.3 sq mi
- Water area0.52 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,187
- County holding the largest share of its areaOrange County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seal Beach
How many people live in Seal Beach
- Population24,722
- Median age61.5
- Population under 183,196
- Share under 1812.9 percent
- Population 65 and over10,805
- Share 65 and over43.7 percent
- Households12,837
- Family households6,120
- Share of households that are families47.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seal Beach
Income and work in Seal Beach
- Median household income$85,964
- Per capita income$68,110
- Civilian labor force9,742
- Employed9,287
- Unemployed455 plus or minus 141
- Unemployment rate4.7 percent plus or minus 1.4
- Adults 25 and over20,562
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher51.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree21.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seal Beach
Housing in Seal Beach
- Housing units14,632
- Occupied units12,837
- Vacant units1,795
- Vacancy rate12.3 percent
- Owner occupied9,827
- Renter occupied3,010
- Ownership rate76.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$486,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$2,649
- Annual rent as a share of median income37.0 percent
- Single family units8,406
- Share single family57.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more6,136
- Share in buildings of two or more41.9 percent
- Mobile homes90 plus or minus 58
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seal Beach
How Seal Beach gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,821
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,093
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,879
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more42.2 percent
- Drove alone67.1 percent
- Carpooled3.2 percent plus or minus 1.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.2 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Worked from home25.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Seal Beach
SBA loans in Seal Beach (7(a))
- Approvals23
- Gross approval$11,272,700
- Average approval$490,117
- Median approval$255,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$915,000
- Largest approval$2,868,700
- Jobs supported208
- Jobs per approval9.0
- Loans with a final outcome8
- Paid in full7
- Charged off1
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more8.7 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders14
- Distinct industries by NAICS20
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 8 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Seal Beach
SBA loans in Seal Beach (504)
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$10,389,000
- Average approval$2,077,800
- Median approval$1,276,000
- Largest approval$5,000,000
- Jobs supported164
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Seal Beach
Flood risk in Seal Beach
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number060233
- Currently effective map date03/21/19
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Orange County, not Seal Beach
Orange County context, not Seal Beach figures
These are Orange County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Seal Beach measurements.
- Establishments in Orange County106,961
- Employment at those establishments, Orange County1,580,778
- Covered employment, Orange County1,661,276
- Average annual pay, Orange County$81,403
- Average weekly wage, Orange County$1,565
- Housing units permitted, Orange County6,972
- Of those, single family, Orange County2,671
- County product, 2024, Orange County$351,752,654,000
- County product change over the prior year, Orange County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Orange County$114,759
Every figure in this section is published for Orange County as a whole and is not a measurement of Seal Beach. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Seal Beach questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Seal Beach, California?
24,722, in 12,837 households. Seal Beach city covers 11.30 square miles of land, which is 2,187 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Seal Beach in?
Orange County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Seal Beach?
$85,964. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $486,800. Median gross rent is $2,649 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Seal Beach businesses?
23 7(a) approvals totalling $11.3 m, across 14 lenders, median approval $255,000, plus 5 504 approvals worth $10.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Seal Beach, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Seal Beach borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Seal Beach. only 8 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Seal Beach in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Seal Beach appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060233, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Seal Beach figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Orange County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Seal Beach.
Is zoning published for Seal Beach?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.