Beaver is a very small town located in the state of Oklahoma. With a population of 1,262 people and two associated neighborhoods, Beaver is the 216th largest community in Oklahoma.
Also of interest is that Beaver has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Beaver has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Beaver has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beaver than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beaver may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Beaver spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 14.39 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
The citizens of Beaver are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.31% of adults in Beaver have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Beaver in 2022 was $26,003, which is middle income relative to Oklahoma, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,012 for a family of four. However, Beaver contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Beaver is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beaver home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beaver residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Beaver also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.63% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beaver include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Beaver is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.