Households in Beverly Hills have lower incomes than those in 91% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Beverly Hills is better than 35% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (B−). Poverty touches 13.5% of residents; Texas has 13.8%. Hardly any stay in Beverly Hills for work; outside it, Waco is the main destination (50%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Beverly Hills in brief
More than half of Beverly Hills works in Waco
379 working residents, 50%, have their main job in Waco, 3.2 miles away. That’s 50 times as many as work in Beverly Hills itself. The commute map ↓
Most Beverly Hills residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Beverly Hills are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. 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 762 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Beverly Hills’ grade
Job access by car holds Beverly Hills’ grade up (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($47,313, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Beverly Hills’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, Beverly Hills could be anywhere from C− to B.
Where the trip to work from Beverly Hills ends
Where Beverly Hills clocks in
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.
How many miles Beverly Hills commutes
About 29% 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.
About 17 minutes to work from Beverly Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beverly Hills workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 697 commuters (the 7% 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.
How many people are in Beverly Hills by day
On a workday 758 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 680 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 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.
What the 684 jobs in Beverly Hills are
684 jobs are based in Beverly Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beverly Hills, 2013 → 2023: 649 → 684. 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 Beverly Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Beverly Hills start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.0% across Texas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 749 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). 7.1% of Beverly Hills households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Beverly Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Beverly Hills is 3,082nd of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 25 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,080 | Molino FL | 1,447 | $75K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,081 | Biggs CA | 1,927 | $85K | 7.4% | 11.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,082 | Beverly Hills TX | 1,835 | $47K | 13.5% | 1.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,083 | Ironwood Township MI | 2,205 | $69K | 12.2% | 2.8% | 8% | C+ |
| 3,084 | Lackawannock Township PA | 2,465 | $58K | 11.1% | 7.8% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Beverly Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Beverly Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Beverly Hills?
$47,313 (±$14,910) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beverly Hills?
13.5%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beverly Hills?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beverly Hills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waco (50%, 3 mi), Woodway (5%, 5 mi), Austin (4%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beverly Hills walkable?
Beverly Hills is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beverly Hills without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beverly Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beverly Hills
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.