Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, St. Bernard is worth considering.
St. Bernard is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.
In St. Bernard, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.17 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, St. Bernard does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In St. Bernard, just 8.74% 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 St. Bernard in 2022 was $29,444, which is middle income relative to Louisiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,776 for a family of four. However, St. Bernard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
St. Bernard is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call St. Bernard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Bernard residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. St. Bernard also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.90% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in St. Bernard include French, Italian, German, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in St. Bernard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
