562 Area Code: Long Beach, California

The 562 code reaches across southeastern Los Angeles County and into northern Orange County, with Long Beach as the primary city. Long Beach sits along the Pacific where the Los Angeles River reaches the ocean, organized around a working harbor that, paired with the adjacent Port of Los Angeles, makes up one of the largest port complexes in the country. The 562 footprint runs through Lakewood, Cerritos, Norwalk, Whittier, and other communities in the southeastern LA area, taking in a band of postwar residential development that sits between the Los Angeles core and the Orange County line.

Records linked to 562 numbers in the directory often reference other California cities — Anaheim, Bakersfield, Chico, Concord, and many more — none of which sit inside the 562 footprint. The overlap is driven by California's high number mobility and by the routine cross-linkage of records across cities through porting, prior registration, and address overlap. The directory currently documents 533 distinct prefixes within 562 in detail. The actual prefix population carried by the code is larger.

Long Beach's home values run well above the US median, reflecting Southern California coastal pricing pressure even outside the most expensive zip codes. Median household income lands above the national reading, the city's median age is close to the US figure, and population places Long Beach among the largest cities in California — large enough to function as a major employment and cultural center in its own right rather than as a Los Angeles satellite.