Bertrand - Wyatt is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,887 people and just one neighborhood, Bertrand - Wyatt is the 199th largest community in Missouri.
Bertrand - Wyatt is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bertrand - Wyatt is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bertrand - Wyatt who work in sales jobs (22.91%), office and administrative support (10.45%), and farm management occupations (9.29%).
A relatively large number of people in Bertrand - Wyatt telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.66% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Bertrand - Wyatt has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bertrand - Wyatt a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Bertrand - Wyatt doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Bertrand - Wyatt is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.70% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bertrand - Wyatt in 2022 was $18,975, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,900 for a family of four. However, Bertrand - Wyatt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bertrand - Wyatt is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bertrand - Wyatt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bertrand - Wyatt residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bertrand - Wyatt include German, English, Irish, African, and French.
The most common language spoken in Bertrand - Wyatt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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 Bertrand - Wyatt, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.5% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 95.6% 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 Bertrand - Wyatt are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.1% of U.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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.5%), and 12.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 Bertrand - Wyatt, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (7.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.