Overview
About Bridgeport
Bridgeport sits near Fifth Street and Pacific Coast Highway, 20 acres laid out on five streets, four of them named for sailing craft: Clipper, Corsair, Galleon and Schooner Ways, all reached from Electric Avenue, and running 1.40 miles in all. The city's Land Use Element describes the housing as one and two story small lot residences with zero lot line setbacks on lots of approximately 3,000 square feet, and the county assessor's typical parcel inside the boundary measures 3,090 square feet. The city's address layer counts 176 homes on 184 parcels.
Recorded covenants set development standards here that differ from the general zoning applying to most parcels in the surrounding planning area, so the tract carries its own rules on top of the city's RLD-15 zoning, which covers 13.7 of the 20 acres. All 20 acres fall inside the California Coastal Zone. Bridgeport is in Council District 3 and the county's school district layer places the whole of it in Los Alamitos Unified, which runs J. H. McGaugh Elementary in Seal Beach at 721 students, McAuliffe and Oak middle schools at 1,018 and 998, and Los Alamitos High at 2,915.
View available homes in BridgeportHistory
How Bridgeport was built
The street names all put to sea. Clipper Way, Corsair Way, Galleon Way and Schooner Way name four kinds of sailing vessel, a clipper being the fastest merchant ship of the nineteenth century, a galleon the Spanish treasure carrier, a schooner the working coastal rig, and a corsair a privateer. The fifth street is Electric Avenue, and that one is not nautical at all. The Pacific Electric Railway's Newport to Balboa line opened on 4 July 1904 and ran down the middle of Electric Avenue through Seal Beach, stopping at Fifth Street and then at the Anaheim Landing stop on Bay Boulevard.
The houses came much later than the street names suggest. The county recorder holds tracts 6345 and 6346 over the neighborhood from 1968 and tract 9814 from 1977, and the city's Land Use Element records approximately 176 homes developed in the early 1970s through several Planned Unit Development approvals, on lots of about 3,000 square feet with zero lot line setbacks. The ground under them was drawn far earlier, on the San Gabriel Extension of Naples map recorded in 1906 and resubdivided in 1911. The corner itself is where the town began: Anaheim Landing, a warehouse and wharf on the small bay where Anaheim Creek reached the ocean, had been shipping goods out for inland farmers since the mid 1860s and is now a California Historical Landmark.
By the Numbers
Bridgeport by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Bridgeport lifestyle
The city's evacuation plan identifies Bridgeport among the areas of potential flooding in Seal Beach. The federal flood layer the city publishes places the whole of the boundary in zone X, which is the area outside the mapped special flood hazard area.
All 20 acres of it fall inside the California Coastal Zone as the city maps it, and the city's zoning layer gives 14 of those acres the zone RLD-15.
Schools
Schools serving Bridgeport
The county's published school district layer places Bridgeport entirely inside Los Alamitos Unified. The campuses below are that district's schools with enrollment from the federal count. Which campus a given address attends is set by the district's attendance boundaries, and the district does not publish those as a map, so confirm the assignment with the district before relying on it.
9-12 · 2,915 students
6-8 · 1,018 students
6-8 · 998 students
K-5 · 721 students
K-5 · 642 students
K-5 · 640 students
K-5 · 625 students
K-5 · 603 students
K-5 · 540 students
FAQs
Common questions about Bridgeport
How big is Bridgeport and how many homes are in it?
Measured against the boundary the City of Seal Beach draws on its own layer, Bridgeport covers 20.1 acres. The city's address layer records 176 addresses inside it, the parcel layer records 184 parcels, and the street centerline layer returns 1.40 miles of street across five named streets.
What kind of homes are in Bridgeport?
The city's Land Use Element describes one and two story small lot residences with zero lot line setbacks on lots of approximately 3,000 square feet. The county assessor's typical parcel inside the boundary is 3,090 square feet, and the city zones 13.7 acres RLD-15. Recorded covenants impose development standards that differ from the general zoning applying to most of the surrounding planning area, so ask for the covenants with the disclosures.
When was Bridgeport built?
The county recorder holds tracts 6345 and 6346 over the neighborhood from 1968 and tract 9814 from 1977. The Land Use Element records approximately 176 homes developed in the early 1970s through several Planned Unit Development approvals. The underlying San Gabriel Extension of Naples subdivision dates from 1906, resubdivided in 1911.
Which schools serve Bridgeport?
The county's school district layer places the whole of Bridgeport in Los Alamitos Unified. The district runs Los Alamitos High at 2,915 students, Oak and McAuliffe middle schools at 998 and 1,018, and six elementary campuses including J. H. McGaugh Elementary in Seal Beach at 721. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the campus for a specific address with the district.
Is Bridgeport in the coastal zone or a flood zone?
All 20.1 acres sit inside the California Coastal Zone as the city maps it, so coastal development permitting applies. The federal flood layer the city publishes places the whole boundary in zone X, outside the mapped special flood hazard area, though the city's Evacuation Plan does identify the Bridgeport area among the potential flooding areas in Seal Beach.