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Milan, MO

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Overview


Milan is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,759 people and just one neighborhood, Milan is the 292nd largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

Milan is a blue-collar town, with 56.62% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Milan is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Milan who work in food service (11.19%), teaching (10.84%), and office and administrative support (7.65%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Milan is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.90 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Milan is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.71% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Milan in 2022 was $24,605, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,420 for a family of four. However, Milan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Milan is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Milan home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Milan, accounting for 45.75% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Milan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Milan include German, English, Irish, Other Subsaharan African, and Nigerian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Milan's cultural character, accounting for 27.15% of the city’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 37.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 76.9% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak African languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Milan 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 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% of U.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, 43.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.9%), and 11.5% 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 68.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, African languages and French.

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 Milan, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report German roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.3%), among others. In addition, 19.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (76.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (56.8%) 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 (37.8%) . 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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