Most of Beaver Creek commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Beaver Creek report 49 jobs for 475 working residents. Hardly any work in Beaver Creek; the top destination outside it is College Station (15%, 18 miles). Home is the office for 1% of workers, where Texas as a whole has 14%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Beaver Creek in brief
Beaver Creek is a place people come home to
There are 49 jobs based in Beaver Creek, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Beaver Creek has about 530 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
48% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Beaver Creek workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 475 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Beaver Creek by day
On a workday 473 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 530 people are in Beaver Creek on a workday afternoon, 44% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Short hops and long hauls from Beaver Creek
About 48% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Commuting from Beaver Creek: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beaver Creek workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 260 commuters (the 1% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
Where Beaver Creek’s working residents head each day
Where Beaver Creek clocks in
15% of workers
15% of workers
12% 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 kinds of work in Beaver Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beaver Creek, 2014 → 2024: 29 → 49. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beaver Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Beaver Creek?
$90,252 (±$46,832) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beaver Creek?
0.8%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beaver Creek?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beaver Creek work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Station (15%, 18 mi), Bryan (15%, 18 mi), Houston (12%, 84 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Beaver Creek 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 Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beaver Creek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.