Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · PA · GEOID 42047922024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 20.9 min one way; 7.2% worked from home, 61.4% drove alone, and 2.6% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip20.9 min±4.0 min MOE
Worked from home7.2%±2.8 pp MOE
Drove alone61.4%±6.9 pp MOE
60+ minute trip2.6%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Beaver Falls city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +0.3 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.2 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Beaver Falls city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 61.4%; 3.9% used public transit and 7.2% worked from home.
Each share uses 3,979 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Beaver Falls city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 26th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 74% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 74% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 88% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 87% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Beaver Falls city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 3,979 workers age 16+, including 3,693 workers with reported travel time and 286 home workers.
Population estimate8,850± 45 MOE
Workers age 16+3,979± 354 MOE
Workers with travel time3,693± 384 MOE
Estimated home workers286± 115 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Pennsylvania reports →Comparable Pennsylvania commute records for Beaver Falls city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.