98% of Belle Terre’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Belle Terre for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Brookhaven (42%), New York (18%) and Islip (9%). Half commute less than 15 miles.
Work and commuting in Belle Terre, in brief
Belle Terre and Brookhaven trade workers both ways
Brookhaven is the top workplace for Belle Terre residents (42%) and also where the most people who work in Belle Terre come from (42% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Belle Terre
71% of Belle Terre residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 35% of the jobs based in Belle Terre pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Belle Terre pay little
32% of the jobs based in Belle Terre pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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; with 333 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
42% of working residents work in Brookhaven
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Belle Terre clocks in
42% of workers
18% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
315 jobs are based in Belle Terre. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Belle Terre’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Belle Terre, 2013 → 2023: 64 → 315. 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 327 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 309 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 (0.95 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.
Half of Belle Terre commutes less than 15 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 36 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Belle Terre workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Belle Terre and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Belle Terre’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Belle Terre
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Belle Terre, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.