St. Bernice is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 595 people and just one neighborhood, St. Bernice is the 387th largest community in Indiana.
St. Bernice is a blue-collar town, with 66.31% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, St. Bernice is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Bernice who work in maintenance occupations (11.76%), sales jobs (10.16%), and healthcare suport services (5.88%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, St. Bernice has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes St. Bernice a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In St. Bernice, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 44.84 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
St. Bernice is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because St. Bernice is a small town , 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. St. Bernice has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
As is often the case in a small town, St. Bernice doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of St. Bernice has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.15% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in St. Bernice in 2022 was $23,062, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,248 for a family of four.
The people who call St. Bernice home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Bernice residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in St. Bernice include British, European, English, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in St. Bernice is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 0.7% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 St. Bernice are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.9% 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 64.9% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 38.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 St. Bernice, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 (40.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.