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Bradley - Prosperity, WV

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Overview


Bradley - Prosperity is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,817 people and just one neighborhood, Bradley - Prosperity is the 32nd largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Bradley - Prosperity is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bradley - Prosperity is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bradley - Prosperity who work in sales jobs (18.06%), food service (12.53%), and teaching (11.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The education level of Bradley - Prosperity citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.56% of adults in Bradley - Prosperity have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Bradley - Prosperity in 2018 was $23,380, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,520 for a family of four. However, Bradley - Prosperity contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bradley - Prosperity also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.18% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Bradley - Prosperity is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bradley - Prosperity are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.4% 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, 49.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 12.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 - Prosperity, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (33.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (17.2%) . 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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