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Gill - Bernardston, MA

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Overview


Gill - Bernardston is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 4,398 people and just one neighborhood, Gill - Bernardston is the 267th largest community in Massachusetts.

Occupations and Workforce

Gill - Bernardston is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gill - Bernardston is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gill - Bernardston who work in management occupations (14.46%), office and administrative support (10.69%), and teaching (10.65%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 14.26% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Gill - Bernardston is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Gill - Bernardston a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Gill - Bernardston has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Gill - Bernardston’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gill - Bernardston has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gill - Bernardston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gill - Bernardston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gill - Bernardston may be for you.

Being a small town, Gill - Bernardston does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Gill - Bernardston citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.51% of adults in Gill - Bernardston have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gill - Bernardston in 2018 was $43,113, which is low income relative to Massachusetts, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,452 for a family of four. However, Gill - Bernardston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gill - Bernardston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gill - Bernardston residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gill - Bernardston include English, Irish, German, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Gill - Bernardston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Chinese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Gill - Bernardston is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in MA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.2% of the neighborhoods in Massachusetts. If you are considering retiring to Massachusetts, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 9.8% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Gill - Bernardston are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.5% 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 77.1% 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, 40.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Gill - Bernardston, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (22.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.9%), and residents who report German roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (9.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (6.1%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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