Carrier Mills is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,622 people and just one neighborhood, Carrier Mills is the 611th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Carrier Mills is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Carrier Mills is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Carrier Mills who work in office and administrative support (19.20%), healthcare suport services (8.09%), and management occupations (6.04%).
Also of interest is that Carrier Mills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The village 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, Carrier Mills has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Carrier Mills a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Carrier Mills is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Carrier Mills isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.22% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small village, Carrier Mills doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Carrier Mills have a very low rate of college education: just 9.70% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Carrier Mills in 2022 was $26,325, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,300 for a family of four. However, Carrier Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Carrier Mills is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Carrier Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carrier Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Carrier Mills include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Carrier Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Carrier Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian 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 Carrier Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.4% 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, 30.9% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.8%), and 22.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).
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 Carrier Mills, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.