Bertha - Hewitt is a very small town located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,816 people and just one neighborhood, Bertha - Hewitt is the 257th largest community in Minnesota.
When you are in Bertha - Hewitt, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.80% of Bertha - Hewitt’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bertha - Hewitt is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bertha - Hewitt who work in management occupations (11.78%), office and administrative support (9.85%), and sales jobs (6.48%).
A relatively large number of people in Bertha - Hewitt telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.47% 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Bertha - Hewitt rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.24% of adults 25 and older in Bertha - Hewitt have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Bertha - Hewitt in 2022 was $26,752, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,008 for a family of four. However, Bertha - Hewitt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bertha - Hewitt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bertha - Hewitt residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bertha - Hewitt include German, Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Bertha - Hewitt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Bertha - Hewitt, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 49.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 7.2% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the 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 Bertha - Hewitt are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 85.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Bertha - Hewitt, MN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (49.7%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Swedish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.