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Brodhead, KY

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Overview


Brodhead is a very small city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 1,131 people and just one neighborhood, Brodhead is the 247th largest community in Kentucky.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Brodhead is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Brodhead is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brodhead who work in office and administrative support (18.22%), healthcare (11.23%), and personal care services (8.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Brodhead’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Brodhead is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Brodhead with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.99% of adults in Brodhead have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Brodhead in 2022 was $17,615, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,460 for a family of four. Brodhead also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.55% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Brodhead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brodhead residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Brodhead include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Brodhead, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Brodhead are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.0% 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, 39.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.7%), and 14.3% 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 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Brodhead, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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