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Bulls Gap, TN

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Overview


Bulls Gap is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 765 people and just one neighborhood, Bulls Gap is the 306th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Bulls Gap, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.50% of Bulls Gap’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bulls Gap is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bulls Gap who work in office and administrative support (13.26%), management occupations (10.75%), and maintenance occupations (8.60%).

Of important note, Bulls Gap is also a town of artists. Bulls Gap has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bulls Gap’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Bulls Gap has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bulls Gap a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Bulls Gap rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.12% of adults 25 and older in Bulls Gap have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Bulls Gap in 2022 was $26,301, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,204 for a family of four. However, Bulls Gap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bulls Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bulls Gap residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bulls Gap include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Bulls Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Bulls Gap are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.5% 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, 33.2% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.1%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

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 Bulls Gap, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (12.8%) . 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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