Millbrook Northwest median real estate price is $311,057, which is more expensive than 74.1% of the neighborhoods in Alabama and 41.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Millbrook Northwest is currently $1,345, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 67.2% of Alabama neighborhoods.
Millbrook Northwest is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Millbrook, Alabama.
Millbrook Northwest real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to large (four, five or more bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Millbrook Northwest neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
In Millbrook Northwest, the current vacancy rate is 1.6%, which is a lower rate of vacancies than 89.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S. This means that the housing supply in Millbrook Northwest is very tight compared to the demand for property here.
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 Millbrook, the Millbrook Northwest neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the Millbrook Northwest neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 20.0% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the Millbrook Northwest neighborhood stands out by having 92.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Millbrook Northwest neighborhood in Millbrook are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.8% 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 Millbrook Northwest neighborhood, 35.6% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 20.0% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the Millbrook Northwest neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.4%).
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 Millbrook Northwest neighborhood in Millbrook, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 Millbrook Northwest neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (92.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.