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Bradley - Milford, ME

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Overview


Bradley - Milford is a very small town located in the state of Maine. With a population of 4,697 people and just one neighborhood, Bradley - Milford is the 89th largest community in Maine.

Occupations and Workforce

Bradley - Milford is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bradley - Milford is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bradley - Milford who work in office and administrative support (19.09%), management occupations (10.45%), and food service (7.09%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Bradley - Milford 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.

Demographics

The population of Bradley - Milford overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Bradley - Milford, 21.40% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Bradley - Milford in 2018 was $29,649, which is lower middle income relative to Maine, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,596 for a family of four. However, Bradley - Milford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bradley - Milford is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bradley - Milford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bradley - Milford residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bradley - Milford include French, English, Irish, French Canadian, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Bradley - Milford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.7% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 8.6% have French Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Bradley - Milford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.7% 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, 31.6% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.4%), and 21.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.5% of households. Some people also speak Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) (2.9%).

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 Bradley - Milford, ME, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as French (20.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (8.6%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (6.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (45.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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