Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Belle Isle has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
For jobs and income Belle Isle is better than 66% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (B−). Belle Isle has 1,838 jobs, and 3,585 of its residents work somewhere. Measured by household income, Belle Isle is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Belle Isle, in brief
Belle Isle makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Belle Isle are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Belle Isle residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 13%. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Belle Isle
27% of Belle Isle workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Belle Isle and Orlando trade workers both ways
Orlando is the top workplace for Belle Isle residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Belle Isle come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Belle Isle’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Belle Isle’s grade up (ahead of 88% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Belle Isle could be anywhere from C to A+.
Belle Isle makes things: 52% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belle Isle, 2013 → 2023: 1,384 → 1,838. 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 Belle Isle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Belle Isle, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belle Isle workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,178 commuters (the 27% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
33% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Belle Isle clocks in
33% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
Belle Isle quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,539 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 1,792 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,900 people are in Belle Isle on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Belle Isle
About 20% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Most trips from Belle Isle start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,987 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 16% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 2% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 87% 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). 7.1% of Belle Isle households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Belle Isle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Belle Isle next to U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400: 1,269th of 3,051 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 177 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 332 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,267 | Lee NY | 6,004 | $94K | 5.8% | 3.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,268 | Maplewood WA | 5,803 | $136K | 5.6% | 8.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,269 | Belle Isle FL | 7,688 | $105K | 11.6% | 5.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,270 | Philomath OR | 5,699 | $84K | 7.2% | 3.2% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,271 | Salisbury MA | 9,530 | $93K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Belle Isle, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Belle Isle and its neighbors: 34% work next door
The biggest share goes to Orlando (33%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Belle Isle workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belle Isle | – | B+ | B− | 28 min | $104,559 |
| Conway | under 2% | A− | B | 27 min | $87,405 |
| Pine Castle | 1% | C | B+ | 25 min | $49,761 |
| Edgewood | under 2% | A | B− | 27 min | $81,481 |
| Orlando | 33% | B− | A | 26 min | $72,336 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Belle Isle’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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Belle Isle: questions
What is the median household income in Belle Isle?
$104,559 (±$35,050) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belle Isle?
11.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belle Isle?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belle Isle work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (33%, 2 mi), Lake Buena Vista (3%, 12 mi), Tampa (2%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belle Isle walkable?
Belle Isle is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belle Isle without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 2% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belle Isle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belle Isle
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.