Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Belzoni earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Belzoni D−; getting around on foot earns it B−. 18.8% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 18.9% for Mississippi as a whole. About one in seven stay in Belzoni for work; outside it, Greenwood is the main destination (7%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Belzoni: the gist
Fewer than half of Belzoni workers earn over $40,000 a year
29% of Belzoni’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 24% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Belzoni are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Mississippi. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Mississippi worker. 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 666 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Belzoni: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Belzoni is better than 3% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Belzoni’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($34,318, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.4%) is left out: Belzoni’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, Belzoni could be anywhere from D− to D.
Jobs in Belzoni: what the 537 are
537 jobs are based in Belzoni.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belzoni, 2013 → 2023: 606 → 537. 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 Belzoni’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes each way for Belzoni’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belzoni workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 424 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% 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 Belzoni
On a workday 581 residents head out to work, 85 work right here, and 452 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 (0.81 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.
Commuting out of Belzoni: the destinations
Where Belzoni clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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 distance from Belzoni to work
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.
In Belzoni, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belzoni is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 1.8% across Mississippi.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 434 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). 13.6% of Belzoni households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Belzoni’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, and where Belzoni sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,756 | Lynchburg MS | 2,161 | $89K | 7.1% | 10.2% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,772 | DeLisle MS | 1,906 | $72K | 7.2% | 3.9% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,805 | Sumrall MS | 2,299 | $70K | 4.4% | 6.9% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,428 | New Chester WI | 2,002 | $49K | 25.7% | 14.8% | 3% | D− |
| 5,429 | Manchester KY | 1,411 | $24K | 41.1% | 9.5% | 24% | D− |
| 5,430 | Belzoni MS | 1,719 | $34K | 18.8% | 9.4% | 13% | D− |
| 5,431 | Dundee NY | 1,672 | $45K | 21.7% | 3.4% | 11% | D− |
| 5,432 | Comanche OK | 1,393 | $41K | 26.6% | 4.1% | 9% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Belzoni, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Belzoni: questions
What is the median household income in Belzoni?
$34,318 (±$14,184) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belzoni?
18.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belzoni?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belzoni work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (7%, 28 mi), Indianola (6%, 21 mi), Yazoo City (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belzoni walkable?
Belzoni is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belzoni without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belzoni, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belzoni
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.