Most of Beaver Meadows commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Beaver Meadows; the top destination outside it is Hazle Township (19%, 6 miles). Beaver Meadows has 60 jobs; 379 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Beaver Meadows apart on work
Beaver Meadows is a place people come home to
There are 60 jobs based in Beaver Meadows, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Beaver Meadows has about 570 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Beaver Meadows workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. 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 379 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Beaver Meadows on a workday afternoon
On a workday 376 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 570 people are in Beaver Meadows on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
About 25 minutes each way, about the PA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beaver Meadows workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 329 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where Beaver Meadows’ working residents head each day
Where Beaver Meadows clocks in
8% 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 Meadows is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beaver Meadows, 2013 → 2023: 119 → 60. 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 Meadows’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Beaver Meadows
About 23% 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 Meadows: questions
What is the median household income in Beaver Meadows?
$52,768 (±$8,581) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beaver Meadows?
19.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beaver Meadows?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beaver Meadows work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (19%, 6 mi), Hazleton (8%, 3 mi), West Hazleton (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Beaver Meadows without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beaver Meadows, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beaver Meadows
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.