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Bradford, NH

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Overview


Bradford is a very small town located in the state of New Hampshire. With a population of 1,709 people and just one neighborhood, Bradford is the 163rd largest community in New Hampshire. Bradford has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bradford is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bradford is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bradford who work in management occupations (12.81%), office and administrative support (8.99%), and teaching (8.20%).

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.

A relatively large number of people in Bradford telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.99% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Because of many things, Bradford is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Bradford a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Bradford has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Bradford’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bradford has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bradford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bradford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bradford may be for you.

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 34.15 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Bradford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Bradford is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.60% of adults in Bradford have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bradford in 2022 was $44,371, which is middle income relative to New Hampshire, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $177,484 for a family of four. However, Bradford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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, French, Italian, and German.

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

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.

Real Estate

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French Canadian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.1% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry and 12.3% have French ancestry.

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 upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.4% 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 54.8% 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, 42.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.8%).

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, NH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.6%), and residents who report French roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (74.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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