Millboro is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 236 people and just one neighborhood, Millboro is the 385th largest community in Virginia. Millboro has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Millboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 83.33% of Millboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Millboro is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Millboro who work in teaching (12.96%), office and administrative support (3.70%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Because of many things, Millboro is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Millboro a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Millboro has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Millboro’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
One downside of living in Millboro, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 41.60 minutes every day commuting to work.
Millboro is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Millboro isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Millboro 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.
Millboro ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.22% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Millboro in 2022 was $27,905, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,620 for a family of four. However, Millboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Millboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Millboro include English, Italian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Millboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Millboro, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 48.5%, which is higher than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.1% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.7% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Virginia, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Virginia. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Millboro are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.8% 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 50.6% of America'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, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.7%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
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 Millboro, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report German roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.