Beaver Dam is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,535 people and two associated neighborhoods, Beaver Dam is the 118th largest community in Kentucky.Beaver Dam is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Beaver Dam is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Beaver Dam who work in office and administrative support (13.93%), teaching (12.88%), and community and social services (8.15%). One downside of living in Beaver Dam, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.96 minutes every day commuting to work. Being a small city, Beaver Dam does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Beaver Dam are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.11% of adults in Beaver Dam have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Beaver Dam in 2022 was $33,695, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,780 for a family of four. However, Beaver Dam contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Beaver Dam is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Beaver Dam home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beaver Dam residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Beaver Dam also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.42% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beaver Dam include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Beaver Dam is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
