Milroy is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 628 people and just one neighborhood, Milroy is the 378th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Milroy was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Milroy is a blue-collar town, with 38.40% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Milroy is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Milroy who work in office and administrative support (22.92%), business and financial occupations (10.32%), and food service (10.03%).
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, Milroy has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Milroy a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Milroy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Milroy citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.82% of adults 25 and older in Milroy have a college degree.
The per capita income in Milroy in 2022 was $31,944, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,776 for a family of four. However, Milroy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Milroy is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Milroy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Milroy residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Milroy include German, Irish, European, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Milroy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Milroy, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.1% of America.
Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in 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 Milroy are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.3% 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 60.7% 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, 35.2% 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 20.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.9%).
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 Milroy, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.