About Belleair Beach

Belleair Beach is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,540 people and just one neighborhood, Belleair Beach is the 432nd largest community in Florida.

Belleair Beach is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.46% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Belleair Beach is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Belleair Beach who work in sales jobs (21.65%), management occupations (20.23%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.63%).

Also of interest is that Belleair Beach has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Belleair Beach are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

Belleair Beach is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Belleair Beach, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.17% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Belleair Beach does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Belleair Beach Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Belleair Beach is a pretty powerful place. 53.42% of the adults in Belleair Beach have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Belleair Beach in 2000 was $56,101, which is wealthy relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $224,404 for a family of four.

The people who call Belleair Beach home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Belleair Beach is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Belleair Beach include German, English, Irish, Polish, Italian, Egyptian, Scotch-Irish, and Danish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Belleair Beach's cultural character, accounting for 16.82% of the town's population.

The most common language spoken in Belleair Beach is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.