The overall crime rate in Berry is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Berry has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Berry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Berry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Berry may be for you.
In Berry, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 45.60 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Berry is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Berry isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.90% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Berry is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Berry, just 7.56% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Berry in 2022 was $25,654, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,616 for a family of four. However, Berry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Berry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Berry residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Berry include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Berry is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
