Milliken is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 9,079 people and just one neighborhood, Milliken is the 60th largest community in Colorado. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Milliken, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Milliken, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Milliken’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Milliken does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $96,772.00.
Unlike some towns, Milliken isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Milliken are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Milliken is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Milliken who work in management occupations (13.51%), sales jobs (11.68%), and office and administrative support (10.34%).
Also of interest is that Milliken has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.34% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Milliken is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Milliken 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, Milliken has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Milliken’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
In Milliken, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.10 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, Milliken is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.19% of adults in Milliken have a college degree.
The per capita income in Milliken in 2022 was $41,822, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,288 for a family of four. However, Milliken contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Milliken is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Milliken home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Milliken residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Milliken also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.45% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Milliken include German, English, Italian, Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Milliken is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, the neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Colorado. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the neighborhood. A whopping 70.2% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
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 Milliken are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.1%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Milliken, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (17.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.