Bulls Gap is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 760 people and just one neighborhood, Bulls Gap is the 306th largest community in Tennessee. Bulls Gap has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Bulls Gap, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.18% 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 production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bulls Gap who work in office and administrative support (13.26%), maintenance occupations (11.36%), and management occupations (7.20%).
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.
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, Bulls Gap is worth considering.
Bulls Gap 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 rate of college-level education in Bulls Gap is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.50% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bulls Gap in 2022 was $24,812, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,248 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.
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 Bulls Gap, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.7% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 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 92.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.8% 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, 36.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.7%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
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 Irish (14.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (45.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.