Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0At 2.0%, unemployment in Beulah is lower than in 85% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where North Dakota as a whole has 8%. The two grades for Beulah are B− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About two in five work in Beulah itself; outside it, Hazen draws the most (8%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Beulah
Most jobs in Beulah go to people who live here
Of the 1,123 jobs based in Beulah, 49% are held by Beulah residents. In most towns, people from elsewhere hold most of the local jobs. Day and night ↓
Most Beulah residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Many jobs in Beulah pay little
26% of the jobs based in Beulah pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Beulah
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Beulah is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #17 of 23 in North Dakota. Unemployment holds Beulah’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beulah could be anywhere from D to B+.
Who works in Beulah, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 860 residents head out to work, 547 work right here, and 576 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Beulah’s workers travel
About 29% 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.
Jobs in Beulah: what the 1,123 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beulah, 2013 → 2023: 1,341 → 1,123. 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 Beulah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Out of Beulah to work: where people go
Where Beulah clocks in
8% of workers
6% of workers
2% 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.
The trip to work from Beulah: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beulah workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,305 commuters (the 1% who work from home are left out). Across North Dakota: 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.
In Beulah, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beulah is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns, #7 of 23 in North Dakota. Both inputs place Beulah near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,312 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). 4.4% of Beulah households have no vehicle (North Dakota 5.9%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Beulah’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200, Beulah ranks 2,433rd of 4,562 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 279 | Apple Creek Township ND | 3,515 | $157K | 2.2% | 1.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 420 | Gibbs Township ND | 2,856 | $156K | 1.4% | 2.9% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,143 | Casselton ND | 2,485 | $73K | 7.1% | 0.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,431 | Leeds ME | 2,406 | $85K | 19.8% | 2.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,432 | Dora AL | 2,223 | $62K | 18.3% | 2.3% | 3% | B− |
| 2,433 | Beulah ND | 3,077 | $77K | 11.2% | 2.0% | 39% | B− |
| 2,434 | Pike Township OH | 4,166 | $67K | 15.6% | 1.5% | 2% | B− |
| 2,435 | Burrell Township PA | 3,434 | $51K | 6.6% | 3.6% | 13% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Beulah, the top three, the last and three more from North Dakota.
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 Beulah: questions
What is the median household income in Beulah?
$76,848 (±$20,228) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beulah?
11.2%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beulah?
15 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beulah work?
39% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazen (8%, 7 mi), Bismarck (6%, 57 mi), Mandan (2%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beulah walkable?
Beulah is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beulah 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 Beulah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beulah
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.