Photo: Eric Fredericks, neighborhoods.org · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Beavercreek have higher incomes than those in 84% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 6.9% of residents (Ohio 13.3%). For jobs and income Beavercreek is better than 84% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in seven work in Beavercreek; the top destination outside it is Dayton (15%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Beavercreek’s Jobs & income grade
Household income is its strongest input ($110,088, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beavercreek could be anywhere from B+ to A.
Beavercreek fills up on a workday
On a workday 15,514 residents head out to work, 2,950 work right here, and 23,161 people come in from elsewhere.
About 56,000 people are in Beavercreek on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 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.
Where people from Beavercreek work
Where Beavercreek clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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 26,111 jobs based in Beavercreek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beavercreek, 2013 → 2023: 21,945 → 26,111. 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 Beavercreek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Beavercreek
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beavercreek workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 19,616 commuters (the 16% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Beavercreek
About 15% 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.
Most trips from Beavercreek start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 23,371 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 2% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 3.0% of Beavercreek households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Beavercreek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Beavercreek places 249th of 909 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 34,000 to 65,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Liberty Township OH | 40,625 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Dublin OH | 49,094 | $160K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 15% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 247 | Greenwich CT | 64,801 | $206K | 6.1% | 6.0% | 27% | A− |
| 248 | Monroe Township NJ | 49,830 | $108K | 3.7% | 5.3% | 6% | A− |
| 249 | Beavercreek OH | 48,134 | $110K | 6.9% | 3.6% | 16% | A− |
| 250 | Hampden Township PA | 35,401 | $105K | 4.9% | 4.3% | 11% | A− |
| 251 | Peachtree City GA | 40,880 | $114K | 5.7% | 4.1% | 19% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 909 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Beavercreek, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Next door is work for 11% of Beavercreek
The biggest share goes to Kettering (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Beavercreek workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beavercreek | – | A− | C+ | 20 min | $110,088 |
| Beavercreek Township | under 2% | A | C+ | 21 min | $116,743 |
| Kettering | 7% | B+ | A− | 20 min | $74,681 |
| Fairborn | 4% | B− | B+ | 21 min | $61,751 |
| Wright-Patterson AFB | under 2% | A− | A | 13 min | $89,615 |
| Riverside | under 2% | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $61,352 |
| Sugarcreek Township | under 2% | A+ | C+ | 23 min | $186,172 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Beavercreek’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 Beavercreek: questions
What is the median household income in Beavercreek?
$110,088 (±$5,637) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beavercreek?
6.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beavercreek?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beavercreek work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dayton (15%, 8 mi), Kettering (7%, 5 mi), Fairborn (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beavercreek walkable?
Beavercreek is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beavercreek without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beavercreek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beavercreek
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.