Carrier Mills is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,622 people and just one neighborhood, Carrier Mills is the 611th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some villages, Carrier Mills isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Carrier Mills are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Carrier Mills is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Carrier Mills who work in office and administrative support (19.20%), healthcare suport services (8.09%), and management occupations (6.04%).
Also of interest is that Carrier Mills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Carrier Mills 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. Carrier Mills has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Carrier Mills than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Carrier Mills may be for you.
Carrier Mills is a very car-oriented village. 97.22% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Carrier Mills is a small village , 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. Carrier Mills has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small village, Carrier Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Carrier Mills has a very low overall level of education: only 9.70% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Carrier Mills in 2022 was $26,325, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,300 for a family of four. However, Carrier Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Carrier Mills is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Carrier Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carrier Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Carrier Mills include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Carrier Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Carrier Mills 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 31.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 30.9% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.8%), and 22.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).
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 Carrier Mills, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.