Bremen is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 172 people and just one neighborhood, Bremen is the 393rd largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bremen is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.78% of the Bremen workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bremen is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bremen who work in sales jobs (12.59%), office and administrative support (11.11%), and computer science and math (9.63%).
Also of interest is that Bremen has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Bremen’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city 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, Bremen has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bremen a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Bremen 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.
The population of Bremen has a very low overall level of education: only 7.12% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Bremen in 2022 was $24,561, which is middle income relative to Kentucky, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,244 for a family of four. Bremen also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Bremen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bremen residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bremen include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Bremen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Bremen, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Bremen neighborhood.
In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 5.1% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of America's neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 24.1% have English ancestry.
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 Bremen are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.5% of U.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, 42.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.7%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
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 Bremen, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (24.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report Scottish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (50.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.3%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.