Work & commute · Belleville

Work & commute in Belleville, NJ

Most working residents leave Belleville for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are New York (11%), Newark (10%) and Jersey City (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

980 of 17,991 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 17,011 Belleville residents head out of town to work, 980 work right here, and 6,953 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Belleville.

17,011live here, work elsewhere

980live and work here

6,953work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Belleville goes to work

New York, NY14.8 mi away

11%1,944

Newark4.8 mi away

10%1,875

Belleville (in town)right here

5%980

Jersey City7.6 mi away

4%670

Clifton4.7 mi away

3%455

Nutley1.9 mi away

2%445

Bloomfield1.7 mi away

2%362

Secaucus5 mi away

2%326

Paterson8.4 mi away

2%312

Montclair3.4 mi away

2%307

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%10,315

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Belleville commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

59%

30%

59%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Belleville is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.44 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Belleville are

7,933 jobs are based in Belleville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Belleville

7,933 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Belleville residents hold

17,991 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+9%

Jobs based in Belleville, 2013 → 2023: 7,268 → 7,933. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.