Photo: Visit Beloit · CC BY-SA 4.0Beloit has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
For jobs and income Beloit is better than 77% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (B−). Employers in Beloit report 1,870 jobs, against 3,670 working residents. Only 7% work in Beloit itself; outside it, Beloit draws the most (26%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Beloit apart
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Beloit
The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($79,662, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beloit could be anywhere from B to A.
Where Beloit goes to work
Where Beloit clocks in
26% of workers
17% of workers
9% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Beloit
On a workday 3,428 residents head out to work, 242 work right here, and 1,628 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,200 people are in Beloit on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
What Beloit’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beloit, 2013 → 2023: 1,461 → 1,870. 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 Beloit’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Beloit
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beloit workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,482 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Beloit
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.
In Beloit, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.8% across Wisconsin.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,690 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 55% 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 2.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 72% 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). 6.5% of Beloit households have no vehicle (Wisconsin 6.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Beloit’s commuters take a bus or train.
890th of 3,015: where Beloit ranks among U.S. towns of 5,600 to 10,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Elm Grove WI | 6,354 | $158K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Waukesha WI | 8,507 | $131K | 3.0% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 888 | Sultan WA | 7,230 | $95K | 5.8% | 1.0% | 7% | A− |
| 889 | Elmira NY | 6,463 | $105K | 5.9% | 3.1% | 3% | A− |
| 890 | Beloit WI | 8,014 | $80K | 4.8% | 3.2% | 7% | A− |
| 891 | Belle Plaine MN | 7,632 | $99K | 2.7% | 5.3% | 15% | A− |
| 892 | Maplewood MO | 8,033 | $65K | 8.7% | 2.0% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,015 | 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 Beloit, the top three, the last and three more from Wisconsin.
How Beloit compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Beloit’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 Beloit: questions
What is the median household income in Beloit?
$79,662 (±$8,197) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beloit?
4.8%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beloit?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beloit work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beloit (26%, 4 mi), Janesville (17%, 10 mi), Madison (9%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beloit walkable?
Beloit is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beloit without a car?
0% 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 Beloit, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beloit
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.