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. Milroy has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
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%).
Milroy’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Milroy has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Milroy has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Milroy than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Milroy may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Milroy doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Milroy who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.82% of the adults in Milroy have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 33 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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.
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 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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%).
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 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.
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 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.