Work & commute · Beaver

Work & commute in Beaver, NE

Most working residents leave Beaver for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Cambridge (11%), Arapahoe (9%) and Holdrege (7%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 186 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 180 Beaver residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 134 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beaver.

180live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

134work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beaver goes to work

Cambridge20.5 mi away

11%20

Arapahoe12.1 mi away

9%17

Holdrege31.6 mi away

7%13

Oxford13 mi away

5%10

Edison10.1 mi away

4%8

McCook42.2 mi away

4%8

Beaver City (in town)right here

3%6

Omaha212.4 mi away

3%6

Kearney55.3 mi away

3%5

Grand Island94.3 mi away

3%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%88

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

How far

How far Beaver commutes

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

41%

24%

30%

6%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beaver is balanced between jobs and homes

0.75jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Beaver are

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

Jobs based in Beaver

140 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month29%

Jobs Beaver residents hold

186 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+18%

Jobs based in Beaver, 2013 → 2023: 119 → 140. 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.