Millry is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 440 people and just one neighborhood, Millry is the 346th largest community in Alabama.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Millry is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Millry is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Millry who work in management occupations (21.79%), law enforcement and fire fighting (19.23%), and healthcare (8.97%).
The town 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, Millry has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Millry a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Millry is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Millry, the average commute to work is 31.63 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Millry is a very car-oriented town. 98.72% 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.
Millry is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Millry with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.22% of adults in Millry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Millry in 2022 was $28,008, which is middle income relative to Alabama, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,032 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, Scottish, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Millry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and African languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 42.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.8% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.0% 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.
In addition, 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 17 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.5% 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 Millry are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.7% 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, 42.2% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% 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 (13.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.4%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (87.0%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.