Hardwick - New Braintree is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 3,648 people and just one neighborhood, Hardwick - New Braintree is the 275th largest community in Massachusetts. Hardwick - New Braintree has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Hardwick - New Braintree isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Hardwick - New Braintree are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hardwick - New Braintree is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hardwick - New Braintree who work in management occupations (12.85%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and teaching (7.16%).
Also of interest is that Hardwick - New Braintree has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Hardwick - New Braintree telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.26% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Overall, Hardwick - New Braintree’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In Hardwick - New Braintree, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.39 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, Hardwick - New Braintree 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: 30.26% of adults in Hardwick - New Braintree have a college degree.
The per capita income in Hardwick - New Braintree in 2022 was $40,299, 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 $161,196 for a family of four. However, Hardwick - New Braintree contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hardwick - New Braintree home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hardwick - New Braintree residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hardwick - New Braintree include Irish, Italian, English, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Hardwick - New Braintree is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
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 Hardwick - New Braintree, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 15.4% have French 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 Hardwick - New Braintree are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 28.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.0% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.9%).
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 Hardwick - New Braintree, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report English roots (15.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (15.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (10.7%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.