Beaver Falls is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Beaver Falls enrolled in college, Beaver Falls has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
For a small city, Beaver Falls has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Beaver Falls exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
In terms of college education, Beaver Falls is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.01% of adults 25 and older in Beaver Falls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Beaver Falls in 2022 was $20,070, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,280 for a family of four. However, Beaver Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Beaver Falls is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Beaver Falls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beaver Falls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beaver Falls include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Beaver Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
