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.
One downside of living in Berry is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Berry, the average commute to work is 45.60 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Berry is a very car-oriented city. 98.90% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Berry is a small city , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Berry has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small city, Berry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Berry have a very low rate of college education: just 7.56% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
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.
