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East Berne, NY

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Overview


East Berne is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,683 people and just one neighborhood, East Berne is the 507th largest community in New York.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, East Berne isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in East Berne are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, East Berne is a town of professionals, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in East Berne who work in management occupations (17.05%), office and administrative support (9.61%), and business and financial occupations (7.60%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, East Berne is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, East Berne really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is East Berne perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) East Berne 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. East Berne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in East Berne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, East Berne may be for you.

One downside of living in East Berne, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.18 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, East Berne is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.50% of adults in East Berne have a college degree.

The per capita income in East Berne in 2022 was $44,219, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $176,876 for a family of four. However, East Berne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call East Berne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Berne residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in East Berne include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.

The most common language spoken in East Berne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in East Berne, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

In addition, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of New York. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.2% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 10.6% have Polish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in East Berne are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 49.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (10.0%), and 9.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in East Berne, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (24.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (10.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (88.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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