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Bagdad, KY

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Overview


Bagdad is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 4,593 people and just one neighborhood, Bagdad is the 96th largest community in Kentucky.

Bagdad real estate is some of the most expensive in Kentucky, although Bagdad house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Bagdad is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bagdad is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bagdad who work in management occupations (14.05%), sales jobs (8.33%), and office and administrative support (7.47%).

Of important note, Bagdad is also a town of artists. Bagdad has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bagdad’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.14% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Bagdad is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Bagdad a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Bagdad has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Bagdad’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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, Bagdad has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bagdad a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Bagdad is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bagdad, the average commute to work is 32.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Bagdad does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Bagdad who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.24% of adults in Bagdad have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Bagdad in 2018 was $36,129, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,516 for a family of four. However, Bagdad contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bagdad home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bagdad residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bagdad include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Bagdad is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Bagdad are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.1% 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, 36.2% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Bagdad, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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