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Millington, MI

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Overview


Millington is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,025 people and just one neighborhood, Millington is the 474th largest community in Michigan. Millington has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Millington, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.35% of Millington’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Millington is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Millington who work in food service (13.75%), sales jobs (12.77%), and office and administrative support (8.84%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The village 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, Millington has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Millington a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Millington, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.25 minutes every day commuting to work.

Millington is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Millington, just 11.79% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Millington in 2018 was $29,535, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,140 for a family of four. However, Millington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Millington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millington residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Millington include German, English, Irish, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Millington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Millington, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 7.0% have French ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Millington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.7% of U.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, 34.5% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 98.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Millington, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (7.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (33.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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