Millry is a tiny town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 438 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, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millry who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (22.52%), management occupations (16.56%), and healthcare (11.26%).
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 30.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Millry is a small town, 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 Millry, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.34% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Millry does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Millry rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.22% of adults 25 and older in Millry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Millry in 2022 was $25,586, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,344 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, Scots-Irish, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Millry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India 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 Millry, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 45.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of American neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of all American neighborhoods.
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 low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.6% 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, 45.7% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
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 Millry, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report German roots (7.5%).
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 (35.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.