First Union Protestant Church of Mountain View · Photo: OneEagle · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Bellmont works elsewhere
4% of workers work from home; New York has 15%. Employers in Bellmont report 54 jobs, and 546 of its residents work somewhere. Bellmont grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bellmont stands out on work
A lot of Bellmont works one town over
42% of working residents work in a town that borders Bellmont: Malone (34%), Chateaugay (6%) and Dannemora (2%). Next door ↓
Bellmont is a place people come home to
There are 54 jobs based in Bellmont, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bellmont has about 840 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Bellmont than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Bellmont fell from 449 in 2013 to 54 in 2023, −88%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 546 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Bellmont’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Bellmont is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bellmont’s grade up (11.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Bellmont’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, Bellmont could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who works in Bellmont, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 532 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Bellmont on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Goods, not services: 44% of the jobs in Bellmont
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bellmont, 2013 → 2023: 449 → 54. 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 Bellmont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
34% of working residents work in Malone
Where Bellmont clocks in
34% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Commuting from Bellmont: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bellmont workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 422 commuters (the 5% 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 many miles Bellmont commutes
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.
Driving is how Bellmont gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bellmont is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 442 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). 1.7% of Bellmont households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bellmont’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bellmont is 3,704th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,702 | Solon ME | 1,008 | $69K | 10.7% | 9.4% | 4% | C− |
| 3,703 | Burns NY | 1,011 | $64K | 11.6% | 7.6% | 8% | C− |
| 3,704 | Bellmont NY | 1,328 | $70K | 11.1% | 5.8% | 3% | C− |
| 3,705 | Richford NY | 1,018 | $66K | 14.1% | 2.1% | 2% | C− |
| 3,706 | Fairfield Township OH | 1,124 | $65K | 17.4% | 5.1% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Bellmont, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
42% of Bellmont works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Malone (34%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bellmont workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellmont | – | C− | D | 25 min | $70,250 |
| Malone | 34% | C | A− | 15 min | $67,969 |
| Ellenburg | under 2% | C− | D | 34 min | $73,125 |
| Franklin | under 2% | C− | C+ | 26 min | $88,456 |
| Chateaugay | 6% | C− | C− | 29 min | $84,219 |
| Dannemora | 2% | C | B− | 21 min | $77,829 |
| Burke | under 2% | D | C+ | 28 min | $63,750 |
| Duane | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Saranac | under 2% | B− | D− | 22 min | $82,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Duane: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bellmont’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 Bellmont: questions
What is the median household income in Bellmont?
$70,250 (±$10,946) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bellmont?
11.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bellmont?
25 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bellmont work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Malone (34%, 7 mi), Chateaugay (6%, 12 mi), Plattsburgh (5%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bellmont walkable?
Bellmont is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bellmont without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bellmont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bellmont
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.