Beverly Hills has lower household incomes than 91% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 3% of workers (Florida 16%). Below the poverty line: 19.8% of residents, next to 12.6% across Florida. Jobs and income earn Beverly Hills D; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Beverly Hills apart on work
Beverly Hills has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Beverly Hills went from 437 in 2013 to 805 in 2023, +84%. The jobs ↓
Beverly Hills is a place people come home to
There are 805 jobs based in Beverly Hills, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Beverly Hills has about 7,100 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Beverly Hills workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Beverly Hills workers earn over $40,000 a year
42% of Beverly Hills’ working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 17% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Beverly Hills
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Beverly Hills is better than 6% of U.S. towns, #620 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Beverly Hills’ grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (8.9%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beverly Hills could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Jobs in Beverly Hills: what the 805 are
805 jobs are based in Beverly Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beverly Hills, 2013 → 2023: 437 → 805. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beverly Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Beverly Hills
On a workday 3,305 residents head out to work, 100 work right here, and 705 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,100 people are in Beverly Hills on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.24 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Beverly Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beverly Hills workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,500 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% 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.
Beverly Hills’ commute, mile by mile
About 32% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
11% of working residents work in Inverness
Where Beverly Hills clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
For most of Beverly Hills, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beverly Hills is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #316 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,619 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 25% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 49% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.5% of Beverly Hills households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Beverly Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Beverly Hills and other U.S. towns of 6,800 to 13,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 33 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 172 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 334 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
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| 2,675 | Belen NM | 7,589 | $43K | 31.2% | 8.0% | 16% | D |
| 2,676 | Massena NY | 9,898 | $51K | 24.3% | 6.5% | 31% | D |
| 2,677 | Beverly Hills FL | 9,650 | $46K | 19.8% | 8.9% | 3% | D |
| 2,678 | Berlin NH | 9,502 | $45K | 15.3% | 7.1% | 33% | D |
| 2,679 | Lawrenceburg TN | 12,236 | $42K | 21.5% | 7.8% | 35% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,751 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Beverly Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Beverly Hills and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Beverly Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly Hills | – | D | B+ | 28 min | $46,488 |
| Pine Ridge | 3% | C | B− | 24 min | $71,014 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Pine Ridge. Darker towns draw more of Beverly Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. 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 Beverly Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Beverly Hills?
$46,488 (±$3,960) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beverly Hills?
19.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beverly Hills?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beverly Hills work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Inverness (11%, 8 mi), Ocala (7%, 26 mi), Lecanto (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beverly Hills walkable?
Beverly Hills is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beverly Hills without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 25% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beverly Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beverly Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.