Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Bellport have higher incomes than those in 94% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 5.8% of residents; New York has 14.0%. Bellport grades A+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 23% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bellport: the gist
Bellport and Brookhaven trade workers both ways
Brookhaven is the top workplace for Bellport residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in Bellport come from (67% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Bellport
68% of Bellport residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 46% of the jobs based in Bellport pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Bellport’s workforce skews older
37% of Bellport’s working residents are 55 or older. 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 897 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Bellport’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Bellport is better than 96% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($146,083, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Bellport’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, Bellport could be anywhere from A to A+.
38% of working residents work in Brookhaven
Where Bellport clocks in
38% of workers
14% of workers
13% 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.
Inside Bellport’s 465 jobs
465 jobs are based in Bellport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bellport, 2013 → 2023: 350 → 465. 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 Bellport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Bellport for work, and who comes in
On a workday 836 residents head out to work, 61 work right here, and 404 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Bellport on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.52 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.
Bellport’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bellport workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 634 commuters (the 23% 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.
The distance from Bellport to work
About 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Bellport
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bellport is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 9.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 828 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.0% of Bellport households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 9% of Bellport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000, Bellport ranks 140th of 5,102 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Acres Green CO | 2,639 | $142K | 8.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A+ |
| 139 | Long Lake MN | 1,944 | $109K | 5.5% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| 140 | Bellport NY | 2,220 | $146K | 5.8% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| 141 | Hamel Township IL | 2,774 | $125K | 3.7% | 0.3% | 4% | A+ |
| 142 | Aspinwall PA | 2,809 | $107K | 3.3% | 2.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Bellport, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bellport and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bellport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellport | – | A+ | A | 28 min | $146,083 |
| East Patchogue | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| North Bellport | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. East Patchogue and North Bellport: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bellport’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 Bellport: questions
What is the median household income in Bellport?
$146,083 (±$30,909) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bellport?
5.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bellport?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bellport work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brookhaven (38%, 7 mi), New York City (14%, 53 mi), Islip (13%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bellport walkable?
Bellport is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bellport without a car?
9% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bellport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bellport
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.