Beaverton is a city in Gladwin County, Michigan. It has 1,061 residents. Beaverton, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 14 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,465 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #423 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on mammography screening (high), homicide rate (low) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on median household income (low), broadband subscriptions (low) and primary care physicians (low).
14Very low
Quality-of-life score
#13,465 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan
#423 of 444 in MI
Population
1,061 (2020-2024)
Land area
1 mi²
Density
1,003.1 /mi²
FIPS code
2606660
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
Safety74#4,047/15,637
Economy22#12,120/15,631
Housing16#12,615/14,977
Health20#12,454/15,609
Healthcare13#13,550/15,650
Environment59#6,406/15,453
Education4#14,995/15,649
Infrastructure2#15,298/15,650
Community34#10,325/15,651
Leisure & amenities35#10,120/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Beaverton, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Gladwin County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.
How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.
Cities and towns like Beaverton, Michigan five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Beaverton, Michigan in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.
Who lives here
Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
Local businesses
Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Beaverton is mostly in Gladwin County.
Over about five years, Beaverton, Michigan improved on 2 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.
Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing
Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.
Improved2
Poverty−14 points32.0% → 18.2%
Poverty rate
32.0% → 18.2%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
−14 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±7.8 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 6 → 28 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 97% of cities and towns
Broadband+14 points62.2% → 76.4%
Broadband subscriptions
62.2% → 76.4%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+14 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±8.5 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 7 → 5 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 77% of cities and towns
Declined2
Rent burden+25 points43.8% → 68.8%
Rent-burdened households
43.8% → 68.8%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+25 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±15.8 points)
Standing among cities and towns: 63 → 9 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 95% of cities and towns
Price / income+1.0×2.6× → 3.6×
Home price to income ratio
2.6× → 3.6×2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+1.0×Beyond the margin of error (±0.9×)
Standing among cities and towns: 59 → 43 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
Less favourable than 78% of cities and towns
All 12 measures
Change of every measure of Beaverton, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
21.1 min2015-2019
32.7 min2020-2024
+11.6 min
Within the margin of error
1%
Bachelor's degree or higher
9.4%2015-2019
11.7%2020-2024
+2.3 points
Within the margin of error
46%
Broadband subscriptions
62.2%2015-2019
76.4%2020-2024
+14 points
Improved
77%
Effective property tax rate
1.61%2015-2019
1.28%2020-2024
−0.3 points
Within the margin of error
77%
High school diploma or higher
88.8%2015-2019
87.2%2020-2024
−1.5 points
Within the margin of error
18%
Home price to income ratio
2.6×2015-2019
3.6×2020-2024
+1.0×
Declined
22%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.5522015-2019
0.4272020-2024
−0.125
Within the margin of error
98%
Median household income
$27,5522015-2019
$30,0502020-2024
+9.1%
Within the margin of error
16%
Poverty rate
32.0%2015-2019
18.2%2020-2024
−14 points
Improved
97%
Rent as share of income
28.3%2015-2019
36.1%2020-2024
+7.8 points
Within the margin of error
13%
Rent-burdened households
43.8%2015-2019
68.8%2020-2024
+25 points
Declined
5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
4.3%2015-2019
6.7%2020-2024
+2.4 points
Within the margin of error
23%
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.
Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.
For comparison, Beaverton, Michigan itself moved −13.4 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).
How the ranking works
Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.
Household income
535 households (±93)
Beaverton, Michigan
Michigan share
Under $25k33%175
Under $25k
33%±7.3 points
175 households±50 (90% margin of error)
16%in Michigan
15%in United States
−16.9 pointssince 2015–2019
$25k–50k39%†210
$25k–50k
39%±12.4 points
210 households±76 (90% margin of error)
19%in Michigan
17%in United States
+13.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k13%†72
$50k–75k
13%±3.7 points
72 households±23 (90% margin of error)
17%in Michigan
16%in United States
+1.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k6.9%†37
$75k–100k
6.9%±2.7 points
37 households±16 (90% margin of error)
13%in Michigan
13%in United States
+0.3 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k7.1%†38
$100k–150k
7.1%±4.6 points
38 households±25 (90% margin of error)
17%in Michigan
18%in United States
+1.6 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k0.6%†3
$150k–200k
0.6%±0.7 points
3 households±4 (90% margin of error)
8.6%in Michigan
9.6%in United States
+0.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more0.0%0
$200k or more
0.0%±2.1 points
0 households±11 (90% margin of error)
9.5%in Michigan
13%in United States
−0.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−16.9 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Gladwin County, the county holding most of Beaverton's residents.
Gladwin County has 433 employer establishments, 167 for every 10,000 residents (0.67× the US rate of 248; 0.73× Michigan's), with 4,882 paid employees at an average annual pay of $43,877. The Census Bureau also counts 1,724 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
433
1,724 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
167
US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees
4,882
Average annual pay
$43,877
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Gladwin County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 25,924 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.
No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.
