Bagdad is a very small town located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 4,655 people and just one neighborhood, Bagdad is the 96th largest community in Kentucky.
Bagdad real estate is some of the most expensive in Kentucky, although Bagdad house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Bagdad isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bagdad are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bagdad is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bagdad who work in management occupations (14.05%), sales jobs (8.33%), and office and administrative support (7.47%).
Of important note, Bagdad is also a town of artists. Bagdad has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bagdad’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.14% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Bagdad is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Bagdad really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bagdad perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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, Bagdad has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bagdad a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bagdad, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.80 minutes every day commuting to work.
Bagdad 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 people in Bagdad who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.24% of adults in Bagdad have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Bagdad in 2022 was $36,129, which is wealthy relative to Kentucky, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,516 for a family of four. However, Bagdad contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bagdad home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bagdad residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bagdad include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Bagdad is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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 Bagdad, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Bagdad are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.2% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.7%).
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 Bagdad, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.
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 (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.