Work & commute · Beaver Dam

Work & commute in Beaver Dam, KY

Most working residents leave Beaver Dam for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Hartford (18%), Owensboro (14%) and Morgantown (3%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

120 of 1,284 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,164 Beaver Dam residents head out of town to work, 120 work right here, and 1,237 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beaver Dam.

1,164live here, work elsewhere

120live and work here

1,237work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beaver Dam goes to work

Hartford3.5 mi away

18%228

Owensboro27.8 mi away

14%177

Beaver Dam (in town)right here

9%120

Morgantown16 mi away

3%36

Bowling Green38.2 mi away

2%24

Lexington-Fayette urban county139.1 mi away

2%22

Central City15.9 mi away

1%17

Evansville, IN54.2 mi away

1%16

Madisonville34.9 mi away

1%15

Hopkinsville51.1 mi away

1%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%614

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Beaver Dam commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

41%

11%

27%

21%

41%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beaver Dam is balanced between jobs and homes

1.06jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Beaver Dam are

1,357 jobs are based in Beaver Dam. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beaver Dam’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Beaver Dam

1,357 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Beaver Dam residents hold

1,284 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−11%

Jobs based in Beaver Dam, 2013 → 2023: 1,531 → 1,357. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe 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 saysA 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 surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.