Beaver City vs Cambridge

A side-by-side comparison of Beaver City and Cambridge: population, income, housing, and more.

Beaver City and Cambridge are places in Nebraska. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Cambridge has the higher population (1,036 vs 494 in Beaver City). Cambridge has the higher median household income ($60,066 vs $40,625 in Beaver City). Cambridge has the higher median home value ($104,800 vs $65,300 in Beaver City).

Population, income & housing

	Beaver City	Cambridge
Population	494	1,036
Median age	48.0 yrs	43.4 yrs
Median household income	$40,625	$60,066
Median home value	$65,300	$104,800
Median gross rent	$600	$731
Housing units	294	537
Homeownership rate	66.8%	86.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.7%	32.0%
Unemployment rate	2.7%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Beaver City	Cambridge
Population	489 → 494 (+1.0%)	1,143 → 1,036 (-9.4%)
Median household income	$41,528 → $40,625 (-2.2%)	$51,875 → $60,066 (+15.8%)
Median home value	$58,100 → $65,300 (+12.4%)	$71,900 → $104,800 (+45.8%)
Median gross rent	$568 → $600 (+5.6%)	$629 → $731 (+16.2%)

Beaver City

Population

489494

Median household income

$41,528$40,625

Median home value

$58,100$65,300

Median gross rent

$568$600

Cambridge

Population

1,1431,036

Median household income

$51,875$60,066

Median home value

$71,900$104,800

Median gross rent

$629$731

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Beaver City	Cambridge
Under 5	5.3%	8.0%
5 to 17	10.3%	17.6%
18 to 24	13.4%	0.6%
25 to 34	10.7%	12.6%
35 to 44	8.7%	17.2%
45 to 54	6.3%	11.8%
55 to 64	21.5%	9.6%
65 to 74	11.9%	10.6%
75 and over	11.9%	12.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Beaver City	Cambridge
White (non-Hispanic)	87.2%	94.6%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.4%	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	2.2%	1.6%
Hispanic or Latino	10.1%	3.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Beaver City	Cambridge
No high school diploma	9.1%	7.8%
High school graduate	38.7%	24.2%
Some college or associate's	40.5%	35.9%
Bachelor's degree	3.4%	24.7%
Graduate or professional degree	8.3%	7.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Beaver City	Cambridge
Drove alone	74.5%	76.7%
Carpooled	7.7%	5.2%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	3.6%	7.2%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.9%
Worked from home	14.1%	9.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Beaver City	Cambridge
1-unit, detached	87.4%	78.8%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	10.9%	10.6%
5 to 19 units	1.0%	1.1%
20 or more units	0.0%	6.9%
Mobile home & other	0.7%	2.6%

Poverty & households

	Beaver City	Cambridge
Poverty rate	11.2%	6.7%
Average household size	2.06	2.21
Mean commute (minutes)	19	17
Median year structure built	1943	1951