Photo: Brocken Inaglory · CC BY-SA 3.0Belvedere’s household incomes are among the highest in the country
Jobs and income earn Belvedere A; getting around on foot earns it A+. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. 5.9% of residents are in poverty; California has 12.0%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Belvedere apart on work
A lot of Belvedere works from home
59% of Belvedere workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
Belvedere and San Francisco trade workers both ways
San Francisco is the top workplace for Belvedere residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Belvedere come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Belvedere’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 31 minutes, longer than the California average of 29. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 560 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Belvedere’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Belvedere is better than 93% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($250,000+, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
The Census reports Belvedere’s median household income as $250,000+, the top of its scale; the grade ranks it as tied with the 111 other graded places at that ceiling.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Belvedere could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
The trip to work from Belvedere: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belvedere workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 390 commuters (the 59% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
37% of working residents work in San Francisco
Where Belvedere clocks in
5% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 537 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 387 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.73 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
69% of the jobs in Belvedere pay over $3,333 a month
410 jobs are based in Belvedere.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belvedere, 2013 → 2023: 357 → 410. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belvedere’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Belvedere
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Belvedere, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belvedere is among the most walkable U.S. towns. Both inputs place Belvedere near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 961 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 85% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Belvedere households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 9% of Belvedere’s commuters take a bus or train.
Belvedere is 261st of 5,793 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Harmony Grove CA | 2,585 | $227K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 259 | Lavallette NJ | 1,869 | $133K | 4.3% | 2.6% | 10% | A |
| 260 | Honey Brook PA | 1,891 | $94K | 2.5% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| 261 | Belvedere CA | 2,066 | $250K | 5.9% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| 262 | Lauderdale MN | 2,328 | $79K | 7.3% | 9.1% | 1% | A |
| 263 | Union Township OH | 2,005 | $108K | 1.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Belvedere, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Belvedere and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Tiburon (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Belvedere’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Belvedere: questions
What is the median household income in Belvedere?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belvedere?
5.9%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belvedere?
31 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 59% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belvedere work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Francisco (37%, 8 mi), San Rafael (5%, 8 mi), Tiburon (4%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belvedere walkable?
Belvedere is among the most walkable U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.0 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belvedere without a car?
9% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belvedere, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belvedere
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.