Photo: Smallbones · Public domainBelleville’s household incomes are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Belleville C−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Poverty touches 8.0% of residents, where Kansas as a whole has 11.3%. For 2% of workers, the job is at home, where Kansas as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Belleville apart on work
Fewer than half of Belleville workers earn over $40,000 a year
41% of Belleville’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 21% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Belleville are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 20 across Kansas. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Kansas worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Belleville workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 12% across Kansas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 873 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Belleville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Belleville is better than 21% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Belleville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Belleville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Belleville could be anywhere from D to C+.
Jobs in Belleville: what the 1,204 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belleville, 2013 → 2023: 982 → 1,204. 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 Belleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 13 minutes each way for Belleville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belleville workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 923 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Kansas: 85% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Belleville
On a workday 441 residents head out to work, 432 work right here, and 772 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Belleville on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.38 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.
5% of working residents work in Concordia
Where Belleville 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.
Half of Belleville commutes less than 1 miles
About 25% 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 of Belleville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belleville is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across Kansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 939 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.7% of Belleville households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Belleville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Belleville next to U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700: 3,949th of 5,509 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,947 | Maryland NY | 1,743 | $63K | 10.5% | 6.8% | 7% | C− |
| 3,948 | Delaware Township PA | 1,622 | $81K | 20.3% | 2.1% | 8% | C− |
| 3,949 | Belleville KS | 1,986 | $56K | 8.0% | 3.4% | 49% | C− |
| 3,950 | Gaylord MN | 2,353 | $57K | 15.0% | 5.0% | 28% | C− |
| 3,951 | Cridersville OH | 1,767 | $55K | 18.2% | 6.5% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | 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 Belleville, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Work in the towns next to Belleville
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Belleville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belleville | – | C− | C+ | 13 min | $56,218 |
| Belleville Township | 2% | — | — | 7 min | — |
| Freedom Township | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Belleville Township and Freedom Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Belleville Township. Darker towns draw more of Belleville’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 Belleville: questions
What is the median household income in Belleville?
$56,218 (±$4,561) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belleville?
8.0%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belleville?
13 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belleville work?
49% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Concordia (5%, 18 mi), Wichita (4%, 148 mi), Salina (3%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belleville walkable?
Belleville is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belleville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belleville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belleville
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.