New Bern is a medium-sized coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 31,539 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, New Bern is the 32nd largest community in North Carolina.New Bern is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, New Bern is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Bern who work in sales jobs (10.47%), food service (8.62%), and healthcare (8.62%). Also of interest is that New Bern has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. New Bern 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. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of New Bern spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.12 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be. New Bern is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.The percentage of people in New Bern who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.37% of adults in New Bern have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in New Bern in 2022 was $35,330, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $141,320 for a family of four. However, New Bern contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. New Bern is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Bern home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Bern residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Bern include English, German, Irish, French, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in New Bern is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
