Bellevue has lower household incomes than 72% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 5.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 5.0 in Peoria. Below the poverty line: 11.6% of residents, against 11.8% across Illinois. For jobs and income Bellevue is better than 47% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bellevue: the gist
Bellevue and Peoria trade workers both ways
Peoria is the top workplace for Bellevue residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Bellevue come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
50% of the jobs in Bellevue are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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 784 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Bellevue’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Bellevue’s grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($60,987, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Bellevue’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bellevue could be anywhere from C to A−.
37% of working residents work in Peoria
Where Bellevue clocks in
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Bellevue
550 jobs are based in Bellevue.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bellevue, 2013 → 2023: 629 → 550. 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 Bellevue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bellevue
On a workday 775 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 541 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Bellevue on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
About 26 minutes each way, about the IL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bellevue workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 799 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Bellevue works
About 21% 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.
In Bellevue, walking beats the bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 905 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 62% 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 5.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 86% 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). 9.5% of Bellevue households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bellevue’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bellevue is 2,359th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Prestbury IL | 2,045 | $165K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,357 | Clear Creek Township OH | 2,276 | $74K | 4.8% | 5.5% | 1% | B− |
| 2,358 | Stiles WI | 1,553 | $81K | 10.6% | 0.5% | 2% | B− |
| 2,359 | Bellevue IL | 1,888 | $61K | 11.6% | 6.7% | 1% | B− |
| 2,360 | Banks OR | 1,821 | $86K | 9.3% | 8.2% | 5% | B− |
| 2,361 | Martinsburg PA | 1,811 | $71K | 8.5% | 2.7% | 10% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Bellevue, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 Bellevue: questions
What is the median household income in Bellevue?
$60,987 (±$13,446) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bellevue?
11.6%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bellevue?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bellevue work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Peoria (37%, 5 mi), Bartonville (5%, 3 mi), Morton (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bellevue walkable?
Bellevue is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.9 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bellevue without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bellevue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bellevue
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.