Beaver Dam is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Beaver Dam is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.32% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Beaver Dam in 2022 was $38,989, which is middle income relative to Wisconsin, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,956 for a family of four. However, Beaver Dam contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Beaver Dam is a somewhat 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 10.20% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beaver Dam include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Beaver Dam is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
