Bryant is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 234 people and just one neighborhood, Bryant is the 453rd largest community in Indiana. Bryant has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bryant is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 69.57% of the Bryant workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bryant is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bryant who work in office and administrative support (11.59%), maintenance occupations (10.14%), and management occupations (5.80%).
Overall, Bryant’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Bryant has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bryant a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Bryant does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Bryant has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.65% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bryant in 2022 was $18,674, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,696 for a family of four. However, Bryant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bryant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bryant residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Bryant include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bryant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 56.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.7% of American neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. 27.8% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 Bryant are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.8% 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 62.0% 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, 56.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 19.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.4%), and 6.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.9% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (15.7%).
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 Bryant, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.8%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.1%) 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 (19.2%) and 7.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.