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East Bernard, TX

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Overview


East Bernard is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,240 people and just one neighborhood, East Bernard is the 614th largest community in Texas.

East Bernard real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although East Bernard house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, East Bernard isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in East Bernard are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, East Bernard is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in East Bernard who work in office and administrative support (21.96%), management occupations (14.67%), and sales jobs (8.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, East Bernard 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 Bernard really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is East Bernard 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.

In East Bernard, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small city, East Bernard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of East Bernard citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.19% of adults in East Bernard have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in East Bernard in 2022 was $34,280, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,120 for a family of four. However, East Bernard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

East Bernard is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call East Bernard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Bernard residents report their race to be White. East Bernard also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.03% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in East Bernard include Czech, German, English, Irish, and Swedish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in East Bernard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% 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 51.0% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 36.2% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.6%), and 16.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in East Bernard, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report English roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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