Work & commute · Beaver Brook

Work & commute in Beaver Brook, WI

Most working residents leave Beaver Brook for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Spooner (14%), Shell Lake (9%) and Rice Lake (9%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 299 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 288 Beaver Brook residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 259 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beaver Brook.

288live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

259work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beaver Brook goes to work

Spooner4.9 mi away

14%43

Shell Lake4.5 mi away

9%28

Rice Lake19.8 mi away

9%27

Eau Claire67.4 mi away

6%17

Beaver Brook (in town)right here

4%11

Cumberland18.3 mi away

3%9

Ladysmith41.4 mi away

2%5

Union67.1 mi away

2%5

Sarona6.5 mi away

2%5

Barron25.1 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%145

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

How far

How far Beaver Brook commutes

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

34%

21%

10%

35%

34%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beaver Brook is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Beaver Brook are

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

Jobs based in Beaver Brook

270 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)34%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Beaver Brook residents hold

299 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+1%

Jobs based in Beaver Brook, 2013 → 2023: 267 → 270. 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.