Work & commute · Beaver Meadows

Work & commute in Beaver Meadows, PA

Most working residents leave Beaver Meadows for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Hazle (19%), Hazleton (8%) and West Hazleton (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 379 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 376 Beaver Meadows residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beaver Meadows.

376live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

57work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beaver Meadows goes to work

Hazle5.6 mi away

19%73

Hazleton3.4 mi away

8%29

West Hazleton6.6 mi away

6%24

Banks0.4 mi away

4%15

Philadelphia75.7 mi away

3%12

Wright13.3 mi away

3%10

Butler8.1 mi away

3%10

East Union11.5 mi away

2%8

Jim Thorpe8.7 mi away

2%7

Packer2.6 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%185

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

How far

How far Beaver Meadows commutes

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

49%

14%

23%

49%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beaver Meadows is a commuter town

0.16jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Beaver Meadows are

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

Jobs based in Beaver Meadows

60 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less47%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month13%

Jobs Beaver Meadows residents hold

379 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−50%

Jobs based in Beaver Meadows, 2013 → 2023: 119 → 60. 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.