About Beavertown

Beavertown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 865 people and just one neighborhood, Beavertown is the 890th largest community in Pennsylvania. Beavertown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Beavertown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.4% of the Beavertown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Beavertown is a borough of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beavertown who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.24%), sales jobs (6.39%), and food service (4.11%).

Beavertown is very much a car-oriented borough. This is because the population of Beavertown isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.29% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small borough, Beavertown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Beavertown Information and Demographics

The citizens of Beavertown have a very low rate of college education: just 7.63% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 14.96% for all cities.

The per capita income in Beavertown in 2000 was $16,792, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $67,168 for a family of four.

The people who call Beavertown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Beavertown is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beavertown include German, Italian, English, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Beavertown is English.