Belleville has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 15% for New York as a whole. Employers in Belleville report 40 jobs for 77 working residents. Hardly any work in Belleville itself; outside it, Watertown draws the most (21%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Belleville
On a workday 77 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Belleville on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Belleville ends
Where Belleville clocks in
Lines 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 Belleville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belleville, 2014 → 2024: 176 → 40. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Belleville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belleville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 100 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far Belleville goes to work
About 27% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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?
$70,278 (±$39,418) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belleville?
8.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belleville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belleville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Watertown (21%, 16 mi), Ellisburg (17%, 3 mi), DeWitt (8%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Belleville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% 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), 2024, 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.