East Bernard is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,243 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.
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, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in East Bernard who work in office and administrative support (17.78%), management occupations (10.52%), and sales jobs (9.31%).
East Bernard is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, East Bernard’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
One downside of living in East Bernard, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.37 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, East Bernard does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in East Bernard who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.51% of adults in East Bernard have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in East Bernard in 2022 was $31,059, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,236 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 38.68% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in East Bernard include Czech, German, English, Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in East Bernard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
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.
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 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.5% 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, 36.6% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.5%), and 14.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 82.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 East Bernard, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report English roots (15.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.