Bryant is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 2,934 people and just one neighborhood, Bryant is the 177th largest community in Alabama.
Bryant is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bryant is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bryant who work in office and administrative support (17.98%), management occupations (10.77%), and teaching (10.57%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Bryant is worth considering.
One downside of living in Bryant is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bryant, the average commute to work is 33.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Bryant is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Bryant with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.94% of adults in Bryant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bryant in 2022 was $21,901, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,604 for a family of four. However, Bryant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bryant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bryant residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bryant include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bryant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.0%) than in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bryant are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.0% 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, 32.8% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Bryant, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (40.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (22.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.