Chief occupations are farming, forestry, wood processing (sawmill, chemical and mechanical wood processing), cardboard packaging, metal industry, chemicals and synthetic material processing.
The influential Gutman family made a significant impact on the Belišće region in the 19th and 20th century. Once vast Slavonian forests of oak are mostly replaced with farmland, and a section of the working-class quarters of Salamon H. Gutman from 1884 is a part of the present-day Belišće. There's a place called Gutmanovci in the vicinity, too.
Major recreational activities include angling on the Drava river and its backwaters and hunting in the broader surroundings.