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 small village, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Carrier Mills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.22% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small village, Carrier Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Carrier Mills, just 9.70% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
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.
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, 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 the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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.
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 (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.