Millers Creek is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,931 people and just one neighborhood, Millers Creek is the 312th largest community in North Carolina.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Millers Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.46% of the Millers Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Millers Creek is a town of managers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millers Creek who work in management occupations (16.47%), office and administrative support (13.50%), and business and financial occupations (8.01%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.15% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) Millers Creek 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. Millers Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Millers Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Millers Creek may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Millers Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Millers Creek has a very low overall level of education: only 9.09% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Millers Creek in 2022 was $33,177, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,708 for a family of four. However, Millers Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Millers Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millers Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Millers Creek include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Millers Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Italian.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.8% 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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Millers Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 44.0% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 94.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Vietnamese.
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 Millers Creek, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (52.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.