St. Mary's Church · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainBeaverville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
A typical one-way commute lasts 29 minutes (Illinois 28, U.S. 26). There are 1 jobs in Beaverville for 104 working residents. Hardly any work in Beaverville; the top destination outside it is Kankakee (11%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Beaverville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 104 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Beaverville on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Beaverville goes to work
Where Beaverville clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
6% 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.
In Beaverville, 100% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beaverville, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 1. 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 Beaverville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Beaverville takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beaverville workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 109 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Beaverville works
About 39% 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.
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 Beaverville: questions
What is the median household income in Beaverville?
$51,000 (±$14,145) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beaverville?
13.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beaverville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beaverville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kankakee (11%, 15 mi), Watseka (10%, 13 mi), Donovan (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Beaverville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beaverville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beaverville
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.