Belleair Bluffs’ household incomes are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns
9.5% of residents are in poverty, against 12.6% across Florida. The two grades for Belleair Bluffs are B− for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 1.1 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 6.0 in Tampa.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Belleair Bluffs at work: what stands out
Belleair Bluffs has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Belleair Bluffs went from 715 in 2014 to 1,042 in 2024, +46%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Belleair Bluffs are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 928 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Belleair Bluffs gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Belleair Bluffs is better than 53% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Belleair Bluffs’ grade up (ahead of 86% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($58,953, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Belleair Bluffs could be anywhere from C to A.
The 1,042 jobs based in Belleair Bluffs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belleair Bluffs, 2014 → 2024: 715 → 1,042. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belleair Bluffs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Belleair Bluffs: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belleair Bluffs workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 866 commuters (the 21% 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.
Belleair Bluffs on a workday afternoon
On a workday 900 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 1,014 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Clearwater
Where Belleair Bluffs clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
8% 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.
How far it is to work from Belleair Bluffs
About 16% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: Belleair Bluffs
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belleair Bluffs is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Belleair Bluffs 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 1,090 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 1.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% 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). 8.9% of Belleair Bluffs households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Belleair Bluffs’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Belleair Bluffs ranks: 2,016th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,014 | Concord AL | 1,913 | $66K | 11.2% | 5.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,015 | Warren AFB WY | 2,936 | $69K | 5.9% | 0.9% | 5% | B− |
| 2,016 | Belleair Bluffs FL | 2,242 | $59K | 9.5% | 4.6% | 3% | B− |
| 2,017 | Malad City ID | 2,338 | $77K | 8.2% | 1.4% | 35% | B− |
| 2,018 | Emerson GA | 2,260 | $75K | 12.5% | 8.4% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Belleair Bluffs, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
14% of Belleair Bluffs works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Belleair Bluffs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belleair Bluffs | – | B− | A+ | 22 min | $58,953 |
| Largo | 14% | B− | A− | 25 min | $62,096 |
| Belleair | under 2% | A− | B+ | 20 min | $117,083 |
| Harbor Bluffs | under 2% | A | B− | 26 min | $140,972 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Largo. Darker towns draw more of Belleair Bluffs’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 2024, 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 Belleair Bluffs: questions
What is the median household income in Belleair Bluffs?
$58,953 (±$13,345) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belleair Bluffs?
9.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belleair Bluffs?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belleair Bluffs work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clearwater (16%, 5 mi), Largo (14%, 3 mi), St. Petersburg (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Belleair Bluffs walkable?
Belleair Bluffs is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.6 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belleair Bluffs without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belleair Bluffs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belleair Bluffs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.