Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Beaver has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Beaver has 31 jobs, and 58 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Beaver for work; outside it, Tillamook is the main destination (14%, 12 miles). Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers (Oregon 19%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Beaver, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 58 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 250 people are in Beaver on a workday afternoon, 10% 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 Beaver goes to work
Where Beaver clocks in
14% of workers
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.
Beaver works in goods: 61% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beaver, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 31. 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’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Beaver
of Beaver workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 106 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Oregon: 80% drive alone, 3% 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 Beaver works
About 41% 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 Beaver: questions
What is the poverty rate in Beaver?
67.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Beaver work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tillamook (14%, 12 mi), Portland (12%, 60 mi), Bay City (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Beaver without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beaver, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beaver
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.