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. Bruin has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
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%).
Bruin’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
In Bruin, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.39 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Bruin is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Bruin has a very low overall level of education: only 9.79% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
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.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.
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.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.8%).
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 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.
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.