Bardwell is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 693 people and just one neighborhood, Bardwell is the 296th largest community in Kentucky.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bardwell is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bardwell is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bardwell who work in office and administrative support (16.52%), sales jobs (15.65%), and food service (10.87%).
Bardwell’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Bardwell is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bardwell, the average commute to work is 30.55 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Bardwell 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.
In Bardwell, just 11.13% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bardwell in 2022 was $18,043, which is low income relative to Kentucky and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,172 for a family of four. However, Bardwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bardwell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bardwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bardwell include English, German, Irish, European, and British.
The most common language spoken in Bardwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 30.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 0.7% have Croatian 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 Bardwell 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 42.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.6% 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, 30.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 21.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Bardwell, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (30.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.1%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (90.4%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.