Beaverton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Beaverton is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beaverton who work in management occupations (12.10%), office and administrative support (11.44%), and sales jobs (10.34%).
Also of interest is that Beaverton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.16% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One thing that you will notice about Beaverton is that there is a good-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. Many singles consider Beaverton a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.
For the size of the city, public transportation in Beaverton is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Beaverton, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.
The education level of Beaverton ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Beaverton, 47.19% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Beaverton in 2018 was $41,002, which is wealthy relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,008 for a family of four. However, Beaverton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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POPULATION: 97,494
Beaverton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Oregon. It has 47 constituent neighborhoods, Beaverton is the seventh largest community in Oregon.
Beaverton, Oregon is a suburb of Portland, which is similar to other middle-class Portland suburbs like Tigard, Tualatin, Raleigh Hills, and Aloha. Because it borders two major freeways -- 217 and 26 -- and is a desirable place to live with good schools, Washington Square (huge shopping center), many parks, and quality homes on large lots, it can be a traffic nightmare. With that said, the Portland metropolitan area has Tri-Met and Light Rail, which is a model for thoughtful, highly successful public transportation.
Beaverton's claim to fame used to be Tektronix, which at one time employed around 24,000 people. Then a small shoe company purchased land in the area, and swelled to become Nike. Other well-known companies that have roots in Beaverton are (or were) Sequent, Reser's Fine Food, Beaverton Foods (horseradish and condiments), Intel (although, most of the large plants are further west in Hillsboro), Mentor Graphics, Floating Point Systems, and many, many other technology companies, which are considered part of Silicon Forest.
Beaverton is also a quick 1.25 hours to the Oregon coast (gorgeous), 30 minutes (or less) to downtown Portland (fabulous), 1.5 hours to Mount Hood (skiing), 30 minutes or less to wineries or microbreweries, and a short drive to a zillion parks, rivers, streams, etc.
For the most part, Beaverton is a great place to live.
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Beaverton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Beaverton is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beaverton who work in management occupations (12.10%), office and administrative support (11.44%), and sales jobs (10.34%).
Also of interest is that Beaverton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.16% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One thing that you will notice about Beaverton is that there is a good-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. Many singles consider Beaverton a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.
For the size of the city, public transportation in Beaverton is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Beaverton, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.
The education level of Beaverton ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Beaverton, 47.19% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Beaverton in 2018 was $41,002, which is wealthy relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $164,008 for a family of four. However, Beaverton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Beaverton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Beaverton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beaverton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Beaverton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.30% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beaverton include German, Irish, English, European, and Norwegian.
In addition, Beaverton has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.34%).
The most common language spoken in Beaverton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.