Photo: Nyttend · Public domainBelmont has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income C+: better than 36% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C−: more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 24 minutes each way (Maine 25, U.S. 26). Only 0% work in Belmont; the top destination outside it is Belfast (25%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Belmont, in brief
What’s behind Belmont’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Belmont is better than 36% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Belmont’s grade up (4.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Belmont’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, Belmont could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Belmont quiets down on a workday
On a workday 409 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Belmont on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.20 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.
25% of working residents work in Belfast
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Belmont clocks in
25% 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.
Belmont makes things: 36% of its jobs are in goods
83 jobs are based in Belmont. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belmont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belmont, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 83. 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.
About 24 minutes each way, about the ME average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belmont workers work from home, vs 16% across Maine. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 302 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Maine: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Belmont commutes less than 17 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 15% 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.
Most trips from Belmont start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belmont is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.0% across Maine, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 329 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). 3.6% of Belmont households have no vehicle (Maine 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Belmont’s commuters take a bus or train.
Belmont is 1,514th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Belmont, the top three, the last and three more from Maine.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 467 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 730 | Georgetown ME | 1,101 | $84K | 6.3% | 3.5% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 818 | Wayne ME | 1,167 | $93K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,512 | Thomasboro IL | 1,003 | $64K | 13.2% | 1.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,513 | Clifty Township IN | 1,062 | $88K | 18.9% | 12.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,514 | Belmont ME | 1,021 | $61K | 4.3% | 6.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,515 | Brady Township PA | 1,008 | $73K | 6.8% | 5.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,516 | Divernon IL | 1,107 | $72K | 16.1% | 5.7% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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.
Belmont and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Searsmont (4%). Darker towns draw more of Belmont’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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 Belmont: questions
What is the median household income in Belmont?
$61,250 (±$14,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,733 across Maine and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belmont?
4.3%, against 10.7% across Maine and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belmont?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Maine and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belmont work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belfast (25%, 5 mi), Augusta (7%, 31 mi), Rockport (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belmont walkable?
Belmont is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belmont without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belmont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belmont
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.