Overall, Berry’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Berry 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. Berry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Berry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Berry may be for you.
One downside of living in Berry, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.62 minutes every day commuting to work.
Berry is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Berry isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.55% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small city, Berry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Berry, just 7.03% 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 Berry in 2022 was $19,270, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,080 for a family of four. However, Berry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Berry also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.15% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Berry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Berry residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Berry include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Berry is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
