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Bixby Knolls

North Long Beach's uptown: 1920s to 1940s houses under big trees, with the breweries on Atlantic a walk away

Tudor Revival house with white and dark timber gables, a wide front lawn and a low brick wall, framed by two large trees
Photo: Los Angeles (Wikimedia Commons user), CC BY-SA 3.0
Median askingBixby Knolls$1.1M21 for sale
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Bixby Knolls, in short.

Bixby Knolls is a residential neighborhood in north Long Beach, ZIP 90807, north of Bixby Road around Atlantic Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard. It was carved from the Bixby family's Rancho Los Cerritos after the 1921 Signal Hill oil boom, and most houses are custom Spanish, Tudor, Craftsman and ranch homes from the 1920s to the 1940s, on bigger lots than the beach neighborhoods. Atlantic Avenue is the main street, with breweries and the monthly First Fridays art walk. As of September 2026, houses listed here asked about $860,000 to $1.8 million. It isn't a historic district, so remodels follow standard city permits.

Bixby Knolls by the numbers.

  • 13,249Population
  • 39%Bachelor's degree or higherage 25+
  • $101,615Median household income
  • 37.3Median age
  • 1921Oil boomSignal Hill strike set off the subdividing
  • 90807ZIP code5.8 sq mi with Cal Heights & Los Cerritos

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2019–2023; neighborhood facts compiled by The Slava House.

Long Beach's leafy uptown

Period houses on big tree-shaded lots around a walkable stretch of Atlantic Avenue.

Bixby Knolls is a residential neighborhood in the north of Long Beach, well inland from the beach. On the city's neighborhood map it runs north from Bixby Road toward Del Amo Boulevard, between the Los Cerritos neighborhood and Virginia Country Club on the west and Cherry Avenue on the east. Many locals use the name more loosely, all the way down to the 405.

The houses are the draw: mostly custom homes from the 1920s to the 1940s, in Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor, Craftsman and ranch styles, on bigger lots and greener streets than the beach neighborhoods. In September 2026, the 12 houses listed here asked about $860,000 to $1.8 million, and the middle asking price across all listings was about $1.1 million, a little above the citywide figure of about $899,000.

Atlantic Avenue is where people go out: independent restaurants, coffee, vintage shops and several breweries. The Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association runs the monthly First Fridays art walk and a 'Brewery Knolls' program, and the Long Beach Shakespeare Company and the Historical Society of Long Beach both sit on Atlantic.

Bixby Knolls is not a city historic district, unlike California Heights, which starts just south of Bixby Road. So you get a period house and can remodel it under standard permits. On the east side you also get small planes headed to and from Long Beach Airport.

Two story shingled Craftsman house with deep eaves and exposed beams behind a leafy hedge and a sunlit green lawn
A Greene and Greene Craftsman house on a wide lawn on Country Club DrivePhoto: Los Angeles (Wikimedia Commons user), CC BY-SA 3.0
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Bixby Knolls compared with all of Long Beach.

Bixby Knolls asks 23% more than Long Beach as a whole.

A square foot costs about the same in Bixby Knolls as across Long Beach.

Listings in Bixby Knolls have been on the market 22 fewer days than across Long Beach.

What’s for sale

57% of the homes for sale in Bixby Knolls are single-family houses.

  • Single-family57%12 homes
  • Multi-unit19%4 homes
  • Other19%4 homes
  • Condo5%1 home

Homes for sale in Bixby Knolls are 21% bigger than across Long Beach.

Each card sets the median in Bixby Knolls against all of Long Beach. The arrow on a card lists every Long Beach neighborhood we cover. Asking prices for homes on the market right now inside each mapped area, not sale prices. Updated October 4, 2026, 4:00 AM PT

Homes for sale in Bixby Knolls

21 active listings in the mapped area

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Where to eat, shop, and explore in Bixby Knolls

The restaurants, cafes, shops, parks, and landmarks that give Bixby Knolls its everyday character, most within a short walk.

11 places

Pick one and I’ll show you where it is.

  1. Shopping10 min walk

    The neighborhood's main street: Atlantic Avenue north of Bixby Road, with independent restaurants, coffee, shops and breweries. It's the route of the monthly First Fridays art walk run by the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association.

    Come on the first Friday of the month for the art walk and open shops.

  2. Landmark25 min walk

    A two-story Monterey Colonial adobe built in 1844 for Jonathan Temple and later the Bixby family's ranch headquarters. It's a National Historic Landmark and a city museum just west of the neighborhood line, with gardens open to the public.

    Free admission and free parking, Wednesday through Sunday.

  3. Restaurant20 min walk

    An open-air food hall of shipping containers at 3768 Long Beach Boulevard, at Bixby Road, with several kitchens, coffee and beer.

    Good for a group: everyone picks a different stall and shares a table.

  4. Landmark10 min walk

    An events and arts space at 4321 Atlantic Avenue that the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association rents out for events.

  5. Landmark10 min walk

    The city's historical society at 4260 Atlantic Avenue, with rotating exhibits and an archive of Long Beach photographs, postcards and records.

  6. Restaurant10 min walk

    A German-style kitchen and beer garden at 4020 Atlantic Avenue, across the street from Ambitious Ales.

  7. Park20 min walk

    A 26-acre city park at 4600 Long Beach Boulevard with a lake, lawns, tennis and basketball courts, a playground and a community center. It's the neighborhood's largest green space.

  8. Coffee15 min walk

    A bakery and coffee shop at 4121 Long Beach Boulevard, a morning stop for the west side of the neighborhood.

  9. Nightlife15 min walk

    A brewery and taproom at 4019 Atlantic Avenue, one of the stops on the Brewery Knolls stretch of Atlantic.

  10. Restaurant10 min walk

    The second Lola's, at 4140 Atlantic Avenue: a modern Mexican kitchen with weekend brunch. The first is on Retro Row.

  11. Restaurant · Nearby20 min walk

    A coffee shop and pie bakery at 3697 Atlantic Avenue, just south of Bixby Road.

    Take a whole pie home on the way out.

From a rancho to Long Beach's uptown

The 1921 oil boom is what turned ranch land into houses.

The land was part of Rancho Los Cerritos. Jonathan Temple built the two-story adobe in 1844, the partnership of Flint, Bixby & Co. bought the rancho in 1866, and Jotham Bixby ran it as a sheep ranch for years. The adobe, just west of the neighborhood, is now a free city museum and a National Historic Landmark.

Aviation came before most of the houses. In 1919 barnstormer Earl Daugherty opened the 20-acre Chateau Thierry Flying Field and flight school at Bixby Road and Long Beach Boulevard, and he later worked with the city on its first municipal airfield. Two years after that field opened, the 1921 oil strike on Signal Hill set off a land boom, and the Bixby family's company began subdividing ranch land here for houses.

Atlantic Avenue grew into a busy shopping street. Roberts department store opened a 52,000-square-foot flagship at 4450 Atlantic in 1967, and the Petroleum Club served the oil crowd from 1955 to 2019. As Lakewood Center and Los Altos Center pulled shoppers away, the strip declined, and the empty Roberts building stood from 1994 until it was torn down in 2009.

The comeback was organized. Blair Cohn took over the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association in 2007, the association built programs like First Fridays around independent businesses, and the strip filled back in with restaurants, breweries and shops.

Pale yellow Colonial Revival house with white trim and shutters behind a large shade tree, clipped hedges, red roses and a broad lawn
A Colonial home on a wide lawn under an old tree in San Marino, like those in Los CerritosPhoto: Tracie Hall (Flickr: tracie7779), CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rancho Los Cerritos adobe, 1844; Flint, Bixby & Co. bought the rancho in 1866
  • Earl Daugherty's airfield at Bixby Rd and Long Beach Blvd opened in 1919
  • The 1921 Signal Hill oil boom set off the subdividing

Custom period houses on generous lots

Most were built from the 1920s to the 1940s, and there are also condos and a mobile home park.

Most homes here were custom-built between the 1920s and the 1940s. Walk one block and you'll see most of the styles of the era: Spanish Colonial Revival with tile roofs and arched windows, Craftsman bungalows, Tudor Revival with steep gables, and later ranch houses. The houses listed in September 2026 were almost all built between 1939 and 1951.

Lots are bigger than near the coast, so homes more often come with yards, driveways and detached garages, and the tree canopy is a big part of the look.

The mix is wider than the leafy blocks suggest. There are condos from the 1970s, duplexes and fourplexes, and a mobile home park on Arbor Street where manufactured homes listed from about $55,000 to $259,000 in September 2026. The large estates people associate with the area mostly sit next door in Los Cerritos, around Virginia Country Club.

Single story ranch house with a shake roof and brick trim, a curving path with low lights across a wide green lawn, and tall trees
A ranch style house on a sweeping lawn under tall trees in San MarinoPhoto: Tracie Hall (Flickr: tracie7779), CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Custom 1920s to 1940s Spanish, Craftsman, Tudor and ranch houses
  • Bigger lots, yards and garages than the beach neighborhoods
  • Also condos, small multi-unit buildings and a mobile home park

Atlantic Avenue and Brewery Knolls

A walkable main street run with a lot of help from its business association.

Most of daily life happens on Atlantic north of Bixby Road: bakeries, coffee, vintage and gift shops, and a busy events calendar. Lola's has its second location at 4140 Atlantic, and Rasselbock's German beer garden faces Ambitious Ales across the street at the 4000 block.

The business association brands the breweries as 'Brewery Knolls', and SteelCraft, a container food hall at Long Beach Boulevard and Bixby Road, adds kitchens and beer on tap. The monthly First Fridays art walk fills the street with art, music and food.

Culture sits on the same blocks: the Historical Society of Long Beach at 4260 Atlantic, the Long Beach Shakespeare Company's Helen Borgers Theatre at 4250, and the Expo Arts Center at 4321. For green space, Scherer Park covers 26 acres at the north end, with a lake and courts, and the gardens at Rancho Los Cerritos are free to visit.

Two story Colonial Revival house with white columns wrapped in holiday garlands, a big wreath on the balcony and a lawn in morning sun
Early sun on a Colonial Revival house dressed for the holidays in Long BeachPhoto: Tracie Hall (Flickr: tracie7779), CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Atlantic north of Bixby Road is the walkable stretch
  • Brewery Knolls: Ambitious Ales, Rasselbock and SteelCraft
  • First Fridays every month on Atlantic

What to check before you buy in Bixby Knolls

It's not a historic district, so remodels follow standard permits, and a pre-war house needs a close inspection.

Because Bixby Knolls isn't a designated historic district, exterior changes generally follow standard City of Long Beach permits instead of a Certificate of Appropriateness. That gives owners more room to change windows, add on or modernize than in California Heights or Bluff Park. Ask about deed restrictions or special zoning on the lot you want.

These are old houses, so inspect accordingly. Homes from the 1920s to the 1940s can have original foundations, old or partly updated wiring, galvanized plumbing and additions of uneven quality. Pay for inspections of the structure, roof, sewer line and systems, and find out whether past work was permitted.

LBUSD campuses in and near the neighborhood include Longfellow Elementary and Hughes Middle School, but assignments go by address. Small planes using Long Beach Airport concentrate over parts of Bixby Knolls and California Heights; if you're looking on the east side, stand on the block on a weekday afternoon. Near the 405 and 710, listen for the freeway too.

How the Bixby Knolls market works

A family house market that costs less than the coast.

Buyers come here for a real house with a yard and a garage, and they get more square footage than near the beach. As of September 2026, houses listed in Bixby Knolls asked about $860,000 to $1.8 million, with the middle near $1.16 million, and condos asked about $500,000.

Price turns on the block, the style and condition, the lot, and how good the remodel is. Being able to walk to Atlantic Avenue counts for a lot of buyers. The neighborhood is big and varied, so price a house off recent sales close to it, not a broad average.

Getting around Bixby Knolls

Parking is easy, and the freeways and the train are close.

People walk or bike to Atlantic for coffee and dinner, and to Scherer Park. Away from Atlantic, the blocks are quiet, and street parking is easy compared with the beach areas.

The location is central. Atlantic Avenue and Long Beach Boulevard run north to south, the 405 and 710 are minutes away, and Metro A Line stations on Long Beach Boulevard connect to Downtown Long Beach and, in the other direction, to Downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena and Pomona. Long Beach Airport is a short drive east.

More Bixby Knolls facts

  • 1920s–1940sHome build eraCustom period houses
  • 1844Rancho adobeNational Historic Landmark
  • 26.1 acresScherer ParkLake, courts, community center
  • 1919First airfieldBixby Rd & Long Beach Blvd

Rentals in Bixby Knolls

5 active rentals in the mapped area

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Renting in Bixby Knolls

Yes, though it's mostly an owner neighborhood. Rentals come up in single-family houses, duplexes and apartment buildings.

Compare Bixby Knolls

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Questions & answers

Its 1920s to 1940s houses on shady streets, and Atlantic Avenue, the walkable main street with the breweries and the monthly First Fridays art walk. It's in north Long Beach, next to the 1844 Rancho Los Cerritos adobe.

Explore near Bixby Knolls

1.1 mi awayLos CerritosAbout 700 large homes on wide streets around the Virginia Country Club and the 1844 Rancho Los Cerritos adobeRead the guide ›1.3 mi awayCalifornia HeightsLong Beach's largest historic district: nearly 1,500 homes, most of them Spanish Colonial Revival, on streets with vintage lamppostsRead the guide ›4.9 mi awayDowntown Long BeachWhere Long Beach started: apartment towers and old storefronts, with the harbor at the foot of Pine AvenueRead the guide ›5.0 mi awayPark EstatesCustom mid-century and traditional houses, started in 1948, on curving streets between Recreation Park and Cal State Long BeachRead the guide ›5.1 mi awayAlamitos BeachOld apartment blocks east of Downtown, with Broadway through the middle and the sand at the end of the streetRead the guide ›5.4 mi awayBluff ParkA 1982 historic district of big pre-war houses on the ocean bluff, facing a 13-acre strip of lawn above the beachRead the guide ›

Written by Slava Ploshkin, Realtor ·

Where we check the facts

The facts in this guide (districts, zones, rules) come from the official records below. We re-check them before property tours.

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