2026 Compare Cities Health:
Portage, IN vs Long Beach, CA

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Highlights
- There are 211 physicians per 100,000 people in Long Beach.
- There are 166 physicians per 100,000 people in Portage.
- The US average is 210 physicians per 100,000 people.
 Portage, INLong Beach, CAUnited States
 Air Quality (100=best)  Unlock5158.4
 Water Quality (100=best)33  Unlock55
 Superfund Sites (100=best)  Unlock9586.9
 Physicians per Cap.166  Unlock210
 Health Cost  Unlock89100
   (100 = best)
Reviews for Portage    2 Reviews

Just a normal, big town in the Midwest. Decent public schools, sure, pretty safe, indeed and not expensive (yet) to live. On the one hand many normal-sized (mostly old)  More

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Over 20 years ago

Boring but good  More

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Reviews for Long Beach    45 Reviews

Local born and bred. This place is going down the drain. Crime is up, housing is up, yuppies finding nothing wrong with it since they want to validate spending 3k on a 2  More

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Angelique · 
Over 6 years ago

I love Long Beach. I especially shoreline village and the aquarium of the pacific. The only big problem here (for me) is crime. Otherwise, nice  More

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Over 8 years ago

The cost of living is extremely high and there are way too many apartments or multi unit homes which have no parking. But with everyone living on top of each other it  More

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