Bruno is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 483 people and just one neighborhood, Bruno is the 201st largest community in West Virginia.
When you are in Bruno, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 63.89% of Bruno’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bruno is a town of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruno who work in business and financial occupations (36.11%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
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, Bruno has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bruno a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bruno, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 44.93 minutes every day commuting to work.
Bruno is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Bruno is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Bruno has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Bruno is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Bruno ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.95% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Bruno in 2022 was $31,772, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,088 for a family of four.
The people who call Bruno home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bruno residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Bruno include Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Bruno is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Pacific Island languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bruno, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.5% of all American neighborhoods.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of all 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 Bruno are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.9% 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 61.9% 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, 31.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.8%), and 12.4% 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 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).
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 Bruno, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (9.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.3%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (95.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.