Overview
About Surfside
This community sits in the southeast of Huntington Beach in ZIP code 92646, and it should not be confused with the Surfside Colony on the coast at the Seal Beach line. The city's HOA layer files it under the name Surfside and draws it around 31.8 acres, and the boundary fills 99.9 percent of its own convex hull, the most regular shape on the whole register. The address layer records 337 addresses inside the line and types 330 as residential, all classed single-family by the assessor with no unit designators anywhere.
Nineteen named streets serve those 330 homes across 2.07 miles, and the vocabulary is drawn from the American northeast: Pawtucket, Attleboro, Burlington, Chesterfield, Chesterbrook, Ashburton, Freeport, Eastport, Bushwick and Creedmoor among them. City zoning and the general plan both read 89.4 percent of the ground as residential medium high density, which the built form matches: the assessor's median building is 1,296 square feet on a median lot of 1,584, with 227 of the dated structures two story and 102 single story. Four addresses carry a pool. The community sits outside the Coastal Zone appeal jurisdiction.
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How Surfside was built
Surfside sits in the 92646 zip code about half a mile back from the sand, and it is a different place from the Surfside Colony out at the Seal Beach line. All 330 of its homes were built in 1964 on about 32 acres, on a single recorded tract, and the streets are borrowed from the other coast entirely: Pawtucket, Attleboro, Chesterfield, Burlington, Freeport, Ridgefield, Foxhall, Woolburn, Bushwick and Creedmoor.
The year explains everything about it. Huntington Beach had 11,492 residents in 1960 and 115,960 by 1970, an increase of more than nine hundred percent, the steepest decade in the city's census record. Tracts like this one are what that number was made of.
By the Numbers
Surfside by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Surfside lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Surfside
This community sits inside Huntington Beach Union High School District, and the district's own published attendance boundary places all of it in the Edison High area. Census TIGERweb puts the whole boundary inside Huntington Beach City School District. That district's school locator, queried at three interior points here, returned S. A. Moffett Elementary and Isaac L. Sowers Middle at every one.
9-12 · 2,049 students
6-8 · 771 students
K-5 · 410 students
FAQs
Common questions about Surfside
Is this the same as Surfside Colony?
No. The community the City of Huntington Beach files as Surfside on its HOA layer sits in the southeast of the city in ZIP code 92646, on streets including Pawtucket, Attleboro and Chesterfield. Surfside Colony is a separate place on the coast at the Seal Beach line. The recorded map over this ground is named Surfwood Condos.
When was Surfside built?
In 1964, without exception. The assessor record carries a year built on all 330 homes inside the boundary and every one of them reads 1964. The single recorded map over the ground, TR 5581, was recorded on 24 September of the same year.
Who surveyed it?
Robert M. Galloway signed TR 5581, recorded 24 September 1964 at MM 205/36-42. It covers 98.9 percent of the boundary, and the assessor still carries tract number 5581 against all 330 homes.
How big is Surfside?
Measured against the boundary the City of Huntington Beach publishes, it covers 31.8 acres. The city address layer records 337 addresses inside it, 330 of them residential, on 19 named streets running to 2.07 miles. The boundary fills 99.9 percent of its own convex hull, the most regular shape on the city's register.
How large are the homes?
The assessor's median building is 1,296 square feet on a median lot of 1,584 square feet. Two hundred and twenty-seven of the homes are recorded as two story and 102 as single story.