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Bradford, TN

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Overview


Bradford is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 992 people and just one neighborhood, Bradford is the 277th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Bradford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bradford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bradford is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bradford who work in office and administrative support (21.84%), maintenance occupations (11.17%), and sales jobs (9.22%).

Also of interest is that Bradford has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

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

One downside of living in Bradford is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bradford, the average commute to work is 31.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Bradford 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 rate of college-level education in Bradford is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.16% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bradford in 2018 was $18,942, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,768 for a family of four. However, Bradford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bradford is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bradford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bradford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bradford include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Dutch.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

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 Bradford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.1% 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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.0%), and 19.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

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 Bradford, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (87.5%) 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 (10.9%) . 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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