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Work & commute in Beverly Shores · A commuter town

99% of Beverly Shores’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Beverly Shores for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Michigan City (16%), Valparaiso (11%) and Portage (7%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Work in town
1%
2 of 223 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
40 min
More than IN (24 min)
Work from home
31%
More than IN (11%)
Jobs based here
36
A commuter town
Work out of state
26%
mostly Illinois

What kind of work town is Beverly Shores?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

16% of working residents work in Michigan City

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Des PlainesHuntleyChicago: 13 residents work here (6%)HamletTown of Pines: 4 residents work here (2%)Beverly ShoresPorter: 8 residents work here (4%)Chesterton: 14 residents work here (6%)Valparaiso: 24 residents work here (11%)La Porte: 8 residents work here (4%)Portage: 15 residents work here (7%)Hammond: 8 residents work here (4%)Michigan City: 35 residents work here (16%)Terre HauteGary: 13 residents work here (6%)PineWestchesterMichigan CityValparaisoPortageChestertonChicagoGaryBeverly Shores
1
Michigan City5.9 mi away
16%35
2
Valparaiso15.1 mi away
11%24
3
Portage12.6 mi away
7%15
4
Chesterton7.4 mi away
6%14
5
Chicago, IL37.8 mi away
6%13
6
Gary20.2 mi away
6%13
7
Porter6.9 mi away
4%8
8
La Porte14.7 mi away
4%8
9
Hammond27.1 mi away
4%8
10
Town of Pines1.4 mi away
2%4
Everywhere elseother towns and states
36%81
The top trips

Where Beverly Shores clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 40 minutes each way, longer than most of Indiana

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
308 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Beverly Shores40 min
Indiana24 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
31%

of Beverly Shores workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.

About 3 in 10
Day and night

Beverly Shores quiets down on a workday

On a workday 221 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.

221live here, work elsewhere
2live and work here
34work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night650
Workday460
650live here− 220head out to work+ 34come in to work= 460on a workday

About 460 people are in Beverly Shores on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.16jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.16 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Beverly Shores commutes less than 16 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi45 miMichigan City: 16% · 5.9 miValparaiso: 11% · 15.1 miPortage: 7% · 12.6 miChesterton: 6% · 7.4 miChicago: 6% · 37.8 miGary: 6% · 20.2 miPorter: 4% · 6.9 miLa Porte: 4% · 14.7 miHammond: 4% · 27.1 miTown of Pines: 2% · 1.4 miMichigan City 16%Valparaiso 11%Portage 7%Chesterton 6%Chicago 6%Beverly Shores
Beverly ShoresTop destinations (size = commuters)
31%Under 10 mi70 residents
36%10–24 mi80 residents
19%25–50 mi42 residents
14%Over 50 mi31 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Beverly Shores makes things: 28% of its jobs are in goods

36 jobs are based in Beverly Shores. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beverly Shores’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Beverly ShoresJobs Beverly Shores residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms28%25%
Trade, transport & utilities17%21%
Services: health, schools, offices56%54%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less33%14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month33%20%
Over $3,333 a month33%65%

Who does it

29 or younger11%18%
30 to 5436%46%
55 and older53%36%
+140%

Jobs based in Beverly Shores, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 36. 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.

Next door

Beverly Shores and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to Town of Pines (2%). Darker towns draw more of Beverly Shores’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Westchester26 min
Town of Pines28 min
Pine35 min
Beverly Shores40 min
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.
  • Where the employer says. A job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.
  • Two surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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.

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