About Bernard

Bernard is a very small town located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 1,280 people and just one neighborhood, Bernard is the 269th largest community in Iowa. Bernard has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Bernard is a blue-collar town, with 40.9% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Bernard is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bernard who work in farm management (16.00%), office and administrative support jobs (12.00%), and healthcare (7.33%).

Also of interest is that Bernard has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Another important characteristic of Bernard is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.73% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Bernard is a very car-oriented town. 96.55% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Bernard 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. Bernard has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Bernard 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.

Bernard Information and Demographics

In Bernard, just 9.09% 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 14.96%.

The per capita income in Bernard in 2000 was $20,956, which is wealthy relative to Iowa, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,824 for a family of four.

The people who call Bernard home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bernard is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bernard include German, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Bernard is English.