Belle Alliance · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Belle Rose has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 8% across Louisiana. Belle Rose has 120 jobs, and 624 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Belle Rose C+; getting around on foot earns it D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Belle Rose: the figures worth knowing
Income, poverty and work: Belle Rose’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Belle Rose is better than 37% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Belle Rose’s grade up (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($60,976, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.6%) is left out: Belle Rose’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, Belle Rose could be anywhere from D to A.
A workday in Belle Rose: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 611 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 107 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Belle Rose on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
7% of working residents work in Donaldsonville
Where Belle Rose clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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 Belle Rose’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belle Rose, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 120. 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 Rose’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Belle Rose, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belle Rose workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 631 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Louisiana: 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Belle Rose
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.
Driving is how Belle Rose gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belle Rose is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Belle Rose 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 631 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). 1.2% of Belle Rose households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Belle Rose’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Belle Rose is 2,836th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 353 | Paulina LA | 1,785 | $89K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 543 | Sorrento LA | 1,622 | $118K | 8.5% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 568 | Cade LA | 1,710 | $73K | 6.0% | 1.5% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,834 | Beaver Dam AZ | 1,624 | $73K | 6.2% | 6.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,835 | North Fork AZ | 1,463 | $123K | 13.5% | 5.8% | 0% | C+ |
| 2,836 | Belle Rose LA | 1,400 | $61K | 11.2% | 9.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,837 | McCord OK | 1,553 | $83K | 11.6% | 2.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,838 | Fulda MN | 1,303 | $71K | 7.3% | 2.5% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Belle Rose, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
How Belle Rose compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Belle Rose workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belle Rose | – | C+ | D− | 22 min | $60,976 |
| Paincourtville | under 2% | — | C− | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Belle Rose’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 Rose: questions
What is the median household income in Belle Rose?
$60,976 (±$38,277) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belle Rose?
11.2%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belle Rose?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belle Rose work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Donaldsonville (7%, 5 mi), Baton Rouge (7%, 28 mi), New Orleans (4%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belle Rose walkable?
Belle Rose is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belle Rose without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belle Rose, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belle Rose
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.