Beaver Dam vs Hoffman Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Beaver Dam and Hoffman Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

Beaver Dam and Hoffman Lake are places in Indiana. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Hoffman Lake has the higher population (336 vs 189 in Beaver Dam). Hoffman Lake has the higher median household income ($86,731 vs $52,917 in Beaver Dam). Hoffman Lake has the higher median home value ($200,500 vs $107,900 in Beaver Dam).

Population, income & housing

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
Population	189	336
Median age	55.9 yrs	51.6 yrs
Median household income	$52,917	$86,731
Median home value	$107,900	$200,500
Housing units	203	267
Homeownership rate	92.5%	73.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.8%	18.1%
Unemployment rate	21.0%	9.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
Population	109 → 189 (+73.4%)	223 → 336 (+50.7%)
Median household income	$41,406 → $52,917 (+27.8%)	$79,643 → $86,731 (+8.9%)
Median home value	—	$194,800 → $200,500 (+2.9%)

Beaver Dam

Population

109189

Median household income

$41,406$52,917

Hoffman Lake

Population

223336

Median household income

$79,643$86,731

Median home value

$194,800$200,500

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
Under 5	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 17	10.6%	0.0%
18 to 24	11.1%	22.9%
25 to 34	6.9%	0.0%
35 to 44	4.2%	4.2%
45 to 54	3.7%	35.1%
55 to 64	27.0%	3.0%
65 to 74	9.5%	15.5%
75 and over	27.0%	19.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	78.3%	100.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	21.7%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
No high school diploma	27.7%	10.0%
High school graduate	43.9%	54.4%
Some college or associate's	15.5%	17.4%
Bachelor's degree	4.7%	18.1%
Graduate or professional degree	8.1%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
Drove alone	100.0%	65.6%
Carpooled	0.0%	21.2%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	13.2%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
1-unit, detached	96.1%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	3.9%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Beaver Dam	Hoffman Lake
Poverty rate	0.0%	0.0%
Average household size	1.77	2.07
Mean commute (minutes)	—	23
Median year structure built	1959	1959