Overview
About Beachwalk
Beachwalk covers 65.9 acres measured against the city's published boundary and holds 453 residential addresses among the 491 the address layer records inside the line. Only one address carries a unit designator and the assessor classes all 453 dwellings as single-family residential. Twenty-seven named streets serve the community across 2.53 miles, the third highest street count on this register, and the vocabulary is the shoreline throughout: Little Harbor, Deep Harbor, Shorecliff, Sandcastle, Oceanaire, Waterview, Maritime, Surfbreaker, Seacliff, Seawind, Coastline and Havenrock among them.
The mix of building heights here is wider than almost anywhere else on the register. The assessor records 195 homes as single story, 167 as two story and 83 as three, which is the second highest count of three-story homes on the register. The median building is 1,728 square feet on a median lot of 2,953, with a wide tenth to ninetieth percentile band of 1,230 to 3,508 square feet, and 31 addresses carry a pool. City zoning and the general plan both read 99.8 percent of the ground as residential low density. The community sits outside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction, with the City Gym and Worthy Park both within 250 meters.
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How Beachwalk was built
Beachwalk is 453 attached townhomes on about 66 acres between Goldenwest Street and 17th Street, just south of Yorktown Avenue, roughly seven tenths of a mile inland of the sand. It was built in the early 1970s on seven original floor plans, with a handful of larger infill houses added around 2000, and it runs five pools and two clubhouses on private interior streets. The county record agrees with that shape, showing 445 of the homes finished in the 1970s starting in 1972 and eight more in the 2000s.
The town it sits behind was named in a deal. In 1903, while the Newport and Balboa line was still being planned, Henry Huntington and his partners bought the Pacific City tract along the proposed route and renamed it Huntington Beach. Huntington had formed the Pacific Electric Railway Company in 1901, and the trains reached the new town by way of Seal Beach in 1904, went on to Newport Beach in 1905 and to Balboa in 1906. The last passenger run on that line was in 1950.
By the Numbers
Beachwalk by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Beachwalk lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Beachwalk
Beachwalk sits inside Huntington Beach Union High School District, and the district's own published attendance boundary places the whole community in the Huntington Beach High area. Census TIGERweb puts all of it inside Huntington Beach City School District. That district's school locator, queried at three interior points of this boundary, returned Agnes L. Smith Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle at every one.
9-12 · 2,645 students
6-8 · 884 students
K-5 · 591 students
FAQs
Common questions about Beachwalk
When was Beachwalk built?
Between 1972 and about 1978. Four recorded maps cover the modern subdivision, all surveyed by David L. Walden and recorded between 18 February 1972 and 20 November 1974. The assessor dates 445 of the 453 homes to the 1970s with a median year built of 1974, and eight later homes to the 2000s.
How big is Beachwalk?
The city's own polygon measures 65.9 acres. The acreage attribute on the same HOA record reads 78.25, which does not agree with the shape the city draws, so the measured figure is used throughout this page. The address layer records 491 addresses inside the boundary, 453 of them residential, on 27 named streets running to 2.53 miles.
What was on the land before Beachwalk?
Tract No. 260, surveyed by C. R. Nutt and recorded on 2 March 1922, still covers the whole of this ground on the county's recorded tract layer. The county's georeferenced image of that sheet shows it divided into two large parcels, Lot A of 42.06 acres and Lot B of 67.07 acres, against Main Street, Palm Avenue, Wesley Street and the numbered streets. The city's land records name a still earlier map, Original Wesley Heights, recorded in 1905.
How tall are the homes in Beachwalk?
The mix is unusually wide. The assessor records 195 homes as single story, 167 as two story and 83 as three story. Only one community on the city's register carries more three-story homes.
Which schools serve Beachwalk?
Huntington Beach Union High School District's published attendance boundary places the whole community in the Huntington Beach High area. Huntington Beach City School District's own locator returns Agnes L. Smith Elementary and Ethel Dwyer Middle, agreeing at all three interior points tested in this run.