Bradley - Prosperity is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,786 people and just one neighborhood, Bradley - Prosperity is the 32nd largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Bradley - Prosperity isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bradley - Prosperity are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bradley - Prosperity is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bradley - Prosperity who work in sales jobs (18.06%), food service (12.53%), and teaching (11.90%).
The education level of Bradley - Prosperity citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.56% of adults in Bradley - Prosperity have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Bradley - Prosperity in 2022 was $23,380, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,520 for a family of four. However, Bradley - Prosperity contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bradley - Prosperity also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.18% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Bradley - Prosperity is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bradley - Prosperity home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bradley - Prosperity residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bradley - Prosperity include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bradley - Prosperity is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (50.8%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
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 Bradley - Prosperity are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.4% 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, 49.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.5%), and 12.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Bradley - Prosperity, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (33.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (17.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.