Italy - Milford is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,972 people and just one neighborhood, Italy - Milford is the 406th largest community in Texas.
Italy - Milford is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Italy - Milford is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Italy - Milford who work in management occupations (10.46%), teaching (9.78%), and office and administrative support (9.49%).
One downside of living in Italy - Milford, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.25 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Italy - Milford doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Italy - Milford rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.70% of adults 25 and older in Italy - Milford 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 Italy - Milford in 2022 was $29,425, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,700 for a family of four. However, Italy - Milford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Italy - Milford is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Italy - Milford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Italy - Milford residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Italy - Milford also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.93% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Italy - Milford include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Italy - Milford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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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 31 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.6% of America.
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 Italy - Milford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.9% 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, 32.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Italy - Milford, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report English roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.