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Brady, NE

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Overview


Brady is a tiny village located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 368 people and just one neighborhood, Brady is the 188th largest community in Nebraska.

Occupations and Workforce

Brady is a blue-collar town, with 42.77% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Brady is a village of construction workers and builders, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brady who work in management occupations (16.98%), teaching (11.32%), and office and administrative support (8.81%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Brady is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Brady a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Brady has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Brady’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Brady has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Brady has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Brady than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Brady may be for you.

Being a small village, Brady does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Brady citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.96% of adults in Brady have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Brady in 2022 was $31,016, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,064 for a family of four. However, Brady contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Brady home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brady residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Brady include German, Irish, Swedish, English, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Brady, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 0.6% have Czechoslovakian 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 Brady are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 61.8% of America'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, 45.8% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 95.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Brady, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report English roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.5%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (11.3%) . 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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