Photo: The original uploader was Royalbroil at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Most of Belgium commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
There are 455 jobs in Belgium; 1,169 of its residents have a job. Belgium grades B for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 7% work in Belgium; the top destination outside it is Milwaukee (13%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Belgium apart on work
Belgium makes and builds things
52% of the jobs based in Belgium are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Belgium residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Belgium’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Belgium is Milwaukee, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (154) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Belgium
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Belgium is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #243 of 362 in Wisconsin. The poverty rate holds Belgium’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Belgium could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Goods jobs make up 52% of work in Belgium
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belgium, 2013 → 2023: 347 → 455. 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 Belgium’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Belgium
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.
How many people are in Belgium by day
On a workday 1,090 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 376 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Belgium on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Belgium’s working residents head each day
Where Belgium clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
About 25 minutes to work from Belgium
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belgium workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,170 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Wisconsin: 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.
Driving is how Belgium gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Belgium is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns, #310 of 362 in Wisconsin. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.8% across Wisconsin, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,273 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). 4.4% of Belgium households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Belgium’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Belgium ranks: 1,414th of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | North Prairie WI | 2,193 | $153K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Sun Prairie WI | 2,291 | $127K | 2.0% | 1.8% | 2% | A+ |
| 80 | Verona WI | 2,092 | $150K | 2.6% | 2.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,412 | Somerset Township PA | 2,538 | $76K | 4.4% | 4.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,413 | Freedom Township PA | 2,933 | $75K | 8.5% | 1.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,414 | Belgium WI | 2,540 | $75K | 3.0% | 5.2% | 7% | B |
| 1,415 | Alfred ME | 3,188 | $82K | 9.0% | 2.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,416 | Collierville CA | 2,546 | $116K | 5.6% | 16.6% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | 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 Belgium, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
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 Belgium: questions
What is the median household income in Belgium?
$74,886 (±$18,888) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belgium?
3.0%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belgium?
25 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belgium work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milwaukee (13%, 31 mi), Port Washington (9%, 8 mi), Grafton (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Belgium walkable?
Belgium is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Belgium without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belgium, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belgium
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.