Beaver Dam is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 3,490 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, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Beaver Dam who work in teaching (14.35%), architecture and engineering (8.07%), and healthcare (6.64%). 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.The citizens of Beaver Dam are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.08% of adults in Beaver Dam have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Beaver Dam in 2022 was $29,182, which is upper middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,728 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. Important ancestries of people in Beaver Dam include English, Irish, German, European, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Beaver Dam is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
