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, Mill Spring has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mill Spring a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Mill Spring, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Mill Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Mill Spring who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.46% of the adults in Mill Spring have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mill Spring in 2022 was $33,411, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,644 for a family of four. However, Mill Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mill Spring is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mill Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mill Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mill Spring include Irish, English, German, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Mill Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
