Millry is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 438 people and just one neighborhood, Millry is the 346th largest community in Alabama.
Millry is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Millry is a town of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millry who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (22.52%), management occupations (16.56%), and healthcare (11.26%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Millry 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. Millry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Millry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Millry may be for you.
One downside of living in Millry, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.25 minutes every day commuting to work.
Millry is a very car-oriented town. 99.34% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Millry is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Millry has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Millry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Millry rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.22% of adults 25 and older in Millry 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 Millry in 2022 was $25,586, 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 $102,344 for a family of four. However, Millry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Millry is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Millry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millry residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Millry include Irish, English, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Millry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and African languages.
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 Millry, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Millry are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.6% 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, 45.7% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Millry, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%).
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.