Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Belvidere has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Commuters spend 34 minutes getting to work on average; Wisconsin averages 22, the U.S. 26. Employers in Belvidere report 76 jobs, and 197 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Belvidere itself; outside it, Winona draws the most (21%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Belvidere by day and by night
On a workday 192 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 71 people come in from elsewhere.
About 260 people are in Belvidere on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 Belvidere goes to work
Where Belvidere clocks in
21% 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.
Making and building: 68% of jobs based in Belvidere
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belvidere, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 76. 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 Belvidere’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 34 minutes each way, longer than most of Wisconsin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belvidere workers work from home, vs 13% across Wisconsin. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 177 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.
Miles to work from Belvidere
About 18% 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.
Next door is work for 11% of Belvidere
The biggest share goes to Alma (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Belvidere workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belvidere | – | — | — | 34 min | $90,341 |
| Buffalo City | 3% | C | C− | 33 min | $60,865 |
| Cochrane | 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Waumandee | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Alma | 5% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Lincoln | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Alma | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Milton | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cochrane and Waumandee: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Alma, Lincoln, Alma and Milton: the same communities as the places of those names, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Belvidere’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 Belvidere: questions
What is the median household income in Belvidere?
$90,341 (±$5,509) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,485 across Wisconsin and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Belvidere?
4.7%, against 10.6% across Wisconsin and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Belvidere?
34 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Wisconsin and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Belvidere work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winona (21%, 17 mi), Wabasha (7%, 13 mi), Alma (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Belvidere without a car?
0% 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 Belvidere, from the people who make the trip.
More of Belvidere
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.