Milner is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 807 people and just one neighborhood, Milner is the 352nd largest community in Georgia. Much of the housing stock in Milner was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Milner economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Milner, where the median household income is $67,476.00.
Unlike some cities, Milner isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Milner are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Milner is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Milner who work in office and administrative support (17.99%), law enforcement and fire fighting (17.52%), and management occupations (5.61%).
A relatively large number of people in Milner telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.46% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Milner is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Milner, the average commute to work is 31.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Milner doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Milner is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.31% of adults 25 and older in Milner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Milner in 2022 was $30,192, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,768 for a family of four. However, Milner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Milner is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Milner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Milner residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Milner include English, Irish, German, Trinidadian and Tobagonian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Milner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 Milner are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 74.6% of America'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, 40.5% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.3%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% 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 Milner, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of South American ancestry (1.2%).
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 (30.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.