Photo: Peeweejd · CC BY-SA 3.0Almost no one in Beaver’s labor force is looking for work
More than half work in Beaver itself; outside it, Cedar City draws the most (5%, 48 miles). Beaver grades B for jobs and income and C for walkability. A typical one-way commute lasts 16 minutes, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Beaver apart
Commutes from Beaver are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 22 across Utah. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Utah worker. Time on the road ↓
A young workforce
31% of Beaver’s working residents are 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Beaver pay little
27% of the jobs based in Beaver pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 33% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
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.
Where Beaver’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Beaver is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #89 of 119 in Utah. Unemployment holds Beaver’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beaver could be anywhere from C to A−.
From Beaver, about 16 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beaver workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,408 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Jobs in Beaver: what the 1,538 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beaver, 2013 → 2023: 1,145 → 1,538. 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.
The daily flow of workers through Beaver
On a workday 506 residents head out to work, 537 work right here, and 1,001 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in Beaver on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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.
Where Beaver goes to work
Where Beaver clocks in
4% 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.
Where in the region Beaver works
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.
Most of Beaver commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beaver is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #109 of 119 in Utah. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,627 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). 1.0% of Beaver households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Beaver’s commuters take a bus or train.
Beaver is 1,764th of 4,318 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Lake Point UT | 2,947 | $137K | 2.0% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 301 | Mountain Green UT | 3,976 | $150K | 0.9% | 1.7% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 430 | Wellsville UT | 4,303 | $104K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,762 | Ossipee NH | 4,599 | $91K | 8.1% | 1.6% | 17% | B |
| 1,763 | Milton Township OH | 2,957 | $69K | 13.1% | 2.6% | 9% | B |
| 1,764 | Beaver UT | 3,699 | $76K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 51% | B |
| 1,765 | Madison Township IN | 3,018 | $67K | 5.7% | 1.3% | 15% | B |
| 1,766 | Jackson Township IN | 4,045 | $74K | 4.8% | 3.5% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Beaver, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
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 median household income in Beaver?
$75,960 (±$14,056) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beaver?
6.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beaver?
16 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beaver work?
51% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cedar City (5%, 48 mi), Milford (4%, 22 mi), St. George (4%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beaver walkable?
Beaver is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beaver without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% 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. 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.