About Bellwood

Bellwood is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,016 people and just one neighborhood, Bellwood is the 690th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Unlike some boroughs , Bellwood isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bellwood are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bellwood is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bellwood who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.98%), sales jobs (12.87%), and food service (8.18%).

One of the benefits of Bellwood is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.44 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Bellwood is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Bellwood Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Bellwood rank slightly lower than the national average. 12.27% of adults 25 and older in Bellwood have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Bellwood in 2000 was $14,323, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $57,292 for a family of four.

The people who call Bellwood home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bellwood is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bellwood include German, Irish, English, Italian, Scotch-Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Bellwood is English.