Most of Beaver Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers (Indiana 11%). Employers in Beaver Township report 344 jobs, against 694 working residents. The two grades for Beaver Township are C for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Beaver Township: the figures worth knowing
Fewer jobs are based in Beaver Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Beaver Township fell from 609 in 2013 to 344 in 2023, −44%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Beaver Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 24 across Indiana. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Beaver Township workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 694 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Beaver Township
On income, poverty and job access, Beaver Township is better than 31% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Beaver Township’s grade up (8.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Beaver Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Beaver Township could be anywhere from D to B.
What Beaver Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beaver Township, 2013 → 2023: 609 → 344. 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 Beaver Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Beaver Township: 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 Beaver Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 682 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Beaver Township
On a workday 655 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 305 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Beaver Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
7% of working residents work in Colfax Township
Where Beaver Township clocks in
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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Beaver Township
About 28% 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.
In Beaver Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beaver Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Indiana, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 696 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.7% of Beaver Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Beaver Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Beaver Township places 3,265th of 5,794 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 7 | Meridian Hills IN | 1,800 | $212K | 0.8% | 3.6% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
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| 3,263 | Rayburn Township PA | 1,716 | $70K | 11.7% | 4.2% | 5% | C |
| 3,264 | Mexico Beach FL | 1,275 | $64K | 5.6% | 8.5% | 11% | C |
| 3,265 | Beaver Township IN | 1,537 | $71K | 8.5% | 4.1% | 6% | C |
| 3,266 | Ford River Township MI | 2,014 | $70K | 7.9% | 5.8% | 1% | C |
| 3,267 | Wells Township MI | 1,585 | $72K | 8.6% | 5.2% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Beaver Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
Next door to Beaver Township
The biggest share goes to Colfax Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Beaver Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Township | – | C | C | 29 min | $71,141 |
| McClellan Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Washington Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Colfax Township | 7% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. McClellan Township, Washington Township, Jackson Township and Colfax Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Beaver Township’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 Beaver Township: questions
What is the median household income in Beaver Township?
$71,141 (±$13,410) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beaver Township?
8.5%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beaver Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beaver Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Colfax Township (7%, 9 mi), Morocco (5%, 1 mi), Rensselaer (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beaver Township walkable?
Beaver Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beaver Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beaver Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beaver Township
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.