Photo: User:OHWiki · CC BY-SA 2.5Bellevue has lower household incomes than 83% of U.S. towns
Bellevue grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. The poverty rate is 18.9%; Ohio has 13.3%. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers (Ohio 13%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bellevue
Bellevue trades workers with the towns around it
Bellevue has about as many jobs (3,515) as working residents (3,796), but they are mostly different people: 3,016 residents leave for work each day while 2,735 people come in. Only 22% of the jobs in Bellevue are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Bellevue makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Bellevue are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bellevue residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Few Bellevue workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Ohio. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
Inside Bellevue’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bellevue is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #916 of 992 in Ohio. Job access by car holds Bellevue’s grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bellevue could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 3,016 residents head out to work, 780 work right here, and 2,735 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 (0.93 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.
Factories, building and farms: 42% of the jobs in Bellevue
3,515 jobs are based in Bellevue.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bellevue, 2013 → 2023: 3,420 → 3,515. 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 Bellevue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bellevue’s commute takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bellevue workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,278 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% 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.
7% of working residents work in Clyde
Where Bellevue clocks in
7% of workers
7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Bellevue
About 20% 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 Bellevue, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bellevue is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns, #582 of 993 in Ohio. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.7% across Ohio.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,392 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). 9.4% of Bellevue households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bellevue’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Bellevue is 2,640th of 3,007 U.S. towns of 5,700 to 11,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Madeira OH | 9,637 | $168K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 5% | A+ |
| 27 | The Village of Indian Hill OH | 6,114 | $235K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Pepper Pike OH | 6,886 | $228K | 1.8% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,638 | Pontotoc MS | 6,156 | $46K | 17.4% | 5.4% | 28% | C− |
| 2,639 | Clinton MO | 9,504 | $51K | 15.2% | 4.7% | 42% | C− |
| 2,640 | Bellevue OH | 8,154 | $54K | 18.9% | 6.4% | 21% | C− |
| 2,641 | Adams MA | 7,934 | $59K | 13.2% | 5.6% | 15% | C− |
| 2,642 | Eatonton GA | 6,749 | $56K | 16.6% | 4.3% | 23% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,007 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Bellevue, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
Bellevue and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bellevue workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellevue | – | C− | C+ | 20 min | $53,875 |
| York Township | 3% | B | D | 17 min | $80,385 |
| Lyme Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Groton Township | under 2% | A− | C | 18 min | $93,843 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lyme Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to York Township. Darker towns draw more of Bellevue’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 Bellevue: questions
What is the median household income in Bellevue?
$53,875 (±$10,814) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bellevue?
18.9%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bellevue?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bellevue work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clyde (7%, 8 mi), Sandusky (7%, 14 mi), Norwalk (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bellevue walkable?
Bellevue is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bellevue without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bellevue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bellevue
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.