Seal Beach is a medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 24,283 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Seal Beach is the 277th largest community in California.

Seal Beach is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 90.95% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Seal Beach is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seal Beach who work in management occupations (16.17%), sales jobs (14.24%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.26%).

Of important note, Seal Beach is also a city of artists. Seal Beach has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Seal Beach's character.

Also of interest is that Seal Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A very large number of seniors call Seal Beach home: people 65 and over are 37.24% of the population. Because of the prominence of the retirement community, this is good place for the over-65 crowd to settle, as many of the city's services and social community are geared to this demographic.

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Seal Beach are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Seal Beach is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Seal Beach Information and Demographics

The citizens of Seal Beach are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.85% of adults in Seal Beach have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Seal Beach in 2000 was $34,589, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $138,356 for a family of four.

Seal Beach is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Seal Beach home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Seal Beach is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Seal Beach include German, English, Irish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Scottish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Seal Beach is English. Some people also speak Spanish.