Industries include education (Cal State Long Beach), transportation/logistics (Port of Long Beach, Long Beach Airport), aerospace (SpaceX, Spinlaunch, Rocketlab, Virgin Orbit, Boeing, etc), auto (Mercedez Benz, Toyota), tourism. etc.

The population has been growing here year over year over the last decade, it is home to The Ohio State University which has over 50,000 students that live here along with those that visit, and it also holds a diverse range of young professionals and traveling nurses to fill the demand of the multiple business corporations and hospitals stationed here.