Photo: U.S. Government Accountability Office from Washington, DC, United States · Public domainWork and commuting in Beaver
A typical one-way commute lasts 10 minutes, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 10% for Alaska as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
About 10 minutes each way for Beaver’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beaver workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Alaska: 72% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Beaver: questions
What is the poverty rate in Beaver?
0.0%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beaver?
10 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Beaver without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 65% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beaver, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beaver
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.