Bulls Gap is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 760 people and just one neighborhood, Bulls Gap is the 306th largest community in Tennessee. Bulls Gap has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Bulls Gap is a blue-collar town, with 43.18% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bulls Gap is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bulls Gap who work in office and administrative support (13.26%), maintenance occupations (11.36%), and management occupations (7.20%).
Of important note, Bulls Gap is also a town of artists. Bulls Gap has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bulls Gap’s character.
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, Bulls Gap has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bulls Gap a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Bulls Gap does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Bulls Gap with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.50% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bulls Gap in 2022 was $24,812, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,248 for a family of four. However, Bulls Gap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bulls Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bulls Gap residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bulls Gap include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bulls Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.7% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bulls Gap are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.7%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Bulls Gap, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.