Beaver LakeNE
Population 2,114: a town in Nebraska.
Is Beaver Lake a good place to live?
The best of Beaver Lake’s subject grades is an A for incomes; the weakest is a D for walkability. Beaver Lake’s average trip to work is 32 minutes, where Nebraska’s towns sit at 17 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Only 2 of Nebraska’s 132 towns score lower on walkability. No town in Nebraska scores lower than Beaver Lake on the outdoors. Beaver Lake has 2 places on the National Register. Beaver Lake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
97% of working residents leave Beaver Lake for work
Where Beaver Lake’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Beaver Lake grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Nebraska), ordered by how far Beaver Lake is from typical.
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Moving to Beaver Lake: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Beaver Lake, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Beaver Lake.
Beaver Lake stands out in Nebraska and nationally, with fewer of its residents who live below the poverty line
Half of commuters travel less than 23 miles. Beaver Lake’s typical household income is $122,000. Since 2013, Beaver Lake has added 35 jobs, to 147 in 2023. The share of working residents in Beaver Lake who work locally: 3.3%.
| Beaver Lake | Nebraska towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 3.3% | 34% | 8% |
| Median household income | $122,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 1.7% | 11% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Beaver Lake has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
For Beaver Lake, the FEMA hazard score is 69 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 47% come from inland flooding and 19% from tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Beaver Lake has four seasons and pleasant summers
Expect July afternoons of 87° and January nights of 15°, with about 25 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Young adults are less common in Beaver Lake than in Nebraska
Among adults 25 and older, 43% have a four-year degree or more, against 35% across Nebraska. Adults 18 to 34 are 17% of residents (23% statewide). Also worth knowing: for residents in Beaver Lake, the share who are under 18 is 26%.
| Beaver Lake | Nebraska towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 43% | 28% | 29% |
| Median age | 43.4 years | 37.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 26% | 24% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
46% women, 54% men
About 116 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±1.4 points). Across Nebraska, 49.7% of residents are women.
| Beaver Lake | NE | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.9% | 13.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 15.7% | 11.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.5% | 9.8% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.8% | 12.9% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.4% | 13.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 19.3% | 11.1% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 9.7% | 11.9% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 13.7% | 9.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 4.9% | 6.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1.7% | 7.8% | 10.4% |
| High school | 17.5% | 25% | 26% |
| Some college | 26.7% | 21.6% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 11.2% | 11% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 19.9% | 22.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 23% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,100, single groups can be off by several points
Everything we know about Beaver Lake
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Beaver Lake; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Beaver Lake residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Nebraska.
Questions about Beaver Lake
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Beaver Lake, NE expensive?
The typical home is worth about $393,000. That is 3.2 years of the area's median household income ($121,607 across the county). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.