Hardwick - New Braintree is a very small town located in the state of Massachusetts. With a population of 3,657 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.
Hardwick - New Braintree is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hardwick - New Braintree is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hardwick - New Braintree who work in management occupations (13.31%), office and administrative support (9.33%), and sales jobs (6.71%).
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.
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!) Hardwick - New Braintree 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. Hardwick - New Braintree has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hardwick - New Braintree than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hardwick - New Braintree may be for you.
One downside of living in Hardwick - New Braintree, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.56 minutes every day commuting to work.
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: 29.31% of adults in Hardwick - New Braintree have a college degree.
The per capita income in Hardwick - New Braintree in 2022 was $42,481, 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 $169,924 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.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.5% have Lithuanian ancestry.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Hardwick - New Braintree are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 38.0% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.1%).
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 Hardwick - New Braintree, MA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report English roots (16.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (13.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (11.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (13.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.