Bear is a medium-sized town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 23,060 people and ten associated neighborhoods, Bear is the fifth largest community in Delaware.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bear is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bear is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bear who work in office and administrative support (11.41%), management occupations (9.04%), and maintenance occupations (6.69%). Also of interest is that Bear has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. In terms of college education, Bear is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.71% of adults in Bear have a college degree. The per capita income in Bear in 2022 was $38,426, which is middle income relative to Delaware, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,704 for a family of four. However, Bear contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bear is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bear home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bear residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Bear also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.12% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bear include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish. Bear also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.37%. The most common language spoken in Bear is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
