Photo: Nyttend · Public domainNew Beaver has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
6% of workers have no commute at all; Pennsylvania has 16%. Employers in New Beaver report 288 jobs for 546 working residents. New Beaver grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where New Beaver stands out on work
What’s behind New Beaver’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, New Beaver is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds New Beaver’s grade up (6.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($61,417, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: New Beaver’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, New Beaver could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
From New Beaver, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Beaver workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 514 commuters (the 7% 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.
How a workday changes New Beaver
On a workday 519 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 261 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in New Beaver on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
9% of working residents work in New Castle
Where New Beaver clocks in
9% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Goods, not services: 45% of the jobs in New Beaver
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Beaver, 2013 → 2023: 287 → 288. 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 New Beaver’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from New Beaver, by distance
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.
In New Beaver, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Beaver is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place New Beaver 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 550 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). 5.9% of New Beaver households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of New Beaver’s commuters take a bus or train.
How New Beaver ranks: 1,627th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,625 | Granville IL | 1,325 | $71K | 5.3% | 4.7% | 5% | B− |
| 1,626 | Royalton PA | 1,133 | $68K | 11.9% | 0.0% | 0% | B− |
| 1,627 | New Beaver PA | 1,343 | $61K | 6.6% | 3.5% | 5% | B− |
| 1,628 | Pound WI | 1,435 | $84K | 7.2% | 3.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,629 | Shasta CA | 1,387 | $111K | 8.7% | 12.5% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 New Beaver, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to New Beaver
The biggest share goes to Big Beaver (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Beaver workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Beaver | – | B− | C− | 31 min | $61,417 |
| Wayne Township | under 2% | B− | C | 27 min | $74,375 |
| Big Beaver | 4% | B+ | C | 30 min | $71,678 |
| Wampum | 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Little Beaver Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 37 min | $60,938 |
| North Sewickley Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 24 min | $76,663 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wampum: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of New Beaver’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 New Beaver: questions
What is the median household income in New Beaver?
$61,417 (±$7,140) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Beaver?
6.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Beaver?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Beaver work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Castle (9%, 8 mi), Ellwood City (5%, 5 mi), Pittsburgh (4%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Beaver walkable?
New Beaver is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Beaver without a car?
1% 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 New Beaver, from the people who make the trip.
More of New 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. 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.