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Bridgeport - Bayard, NE

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Overview


Bridgeport - Bayard is a very small town located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 4,527 people and just one neighborhood, Bridgeport - Bayard is the 47th largest community in Nebraska. Bridgeport - Bayard has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Bridgeport - Bayard isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bridgeport - Bayard are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bridgeport - Bayard is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bridgeport - Bayard who work in office and administrative support (14.77%), management occupations (13.25%), and teaching (8.03%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.58% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Bridgeport - Bayard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Bridgeport - Bayard citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.45% of adults 25 and older in Bridgeport - Bayard have a college degree.

The per capita income in Bridgeport - Bayard in 2022 was $29,741, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,964 for a family of four. However, Bridgeport - Bayard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bridgeport - Bayard is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bridgeport - Bayard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bridgeport - Bayard residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Bridgeport - Bayard also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.80% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bridgeport - Bayard include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Danish.

The most common language spoken in Bridgeport - Bayard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.7% of America.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 1.2% have Slovak 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 Bridgeport - Bayard are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.8% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.8%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Bridgeport - Bayard, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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