Photo: Connor J. Williams · CC BY 3.0Households in Belleview earn less than those in 77% of U.S. towns
Belleview grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 16.8% of residents are in poverty; Florida has 12.6%. Only 4% work in Belleview; the top destination outside it is Ocala (28%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Belleview apart
Belleview trades workers with the towns around it
Belleview has about as many jobs (2,380) as working residents (2,542), but they are mostly different people: 2,429 residents leave for work each day while 2,267 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Belleview are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
28% of Belleview works in Ocala
707 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Ocala, 9.9 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Belleview itself. 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.
How Belleview earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Belleview is better than 23% of U.S. towns, #552 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Belleview’s grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Belleview could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily flow of workers through Belleview
On a workday 2,429 residents head out to work, 113 work right here, and 2,267 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 (0.94 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Belleview work
Where Belleview clocks in
28% of workers
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.
What the 2,380 jobs in Belleview are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belleview, 2013 → 2023: 2,325 → 2,380. 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 Belleview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Belleview takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belleview workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,084 commuters (the 16% 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.
How far Belleview goes to work
About 26% 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 Belleview start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belleview is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #516 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,467 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 10.7% of Belleview households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Belleview’s commuters take a bus or train.
Belleview is 2,612th of 3,218 U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,800 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 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 160 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 315 | Orangetree FL | 6,084 | $113K | 3.8% | 0.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,610 | Union Gap WA | 6,617 | $60K | 13.8% | 13.4% | 9% | C− |
| 2,611 | Benton Township IL | 8,535 | $56K | 17.1% | 4.9% | 19% | C− |
| 2,612 | Belleview FL | 6,512 | $58K | 16.8% | 5.9% | 4% | C− |
| 2,613 | Douglas WY | 6,469 | $83K | 15.6% | 5.8% | 46% | C− |
| 2,614 | Sheridan AR | 5,406 | $62K | 19.9% | 5.9% | 24% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,218 | 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 Belleview, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Belleview: questions
What is the median household income in Belleview?
$57,813 (±$12,197) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belleview?
16.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belleview?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belleview work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocala (28%, 10 mi), Wildwood (5%, 18 mi), The Villages (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belleview walkable?
Belleview is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belleview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belleview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belleview
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.