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Bruin, PA

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Overview


Bruin is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 410 people and just one neighborhood, Bruin is the 1012th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Bruin was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Bruin, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.17% of Bruin’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bruin is a borough of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruin who work in office and administrative support (12.57%), healthcare suport services (8.74%), and sales jobs (8.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Bruin’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Bruin is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bruin, the average commute to work is 34.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small borough, Bruin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Bruin, just 9.79% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Bruin in 2022 was $41,483, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,932 for a family of four. However, Bruin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bruin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bruin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Bruin include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Bruin is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 3.7% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Bruin are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.4% 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 57.7% 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, 41.2% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7%), and 15.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Bruin, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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