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.
Bruno is a blue-collar town, with 78.24% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bruno is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruno who work in healthcare (8.29%), business and financial occupations (7.25%), and food service (3.11%).
Overall, Bruno’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bruno, the average commute to work is 49.08 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
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.
In Bruno, just 6.38% 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 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bruno in 2022 was $32,757, 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 $131,028 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, Hungarian, English, German, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Bruno is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Pacific Island languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Bruno 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 WV, 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 86.1% of the neighborhoods in West Virginia. If you are considering retiring to West Virginia, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.8% 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 64.8% 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, 39.8% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.8%), and 8.0% 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 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).
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 Bruno, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (43.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.7%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.