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Carrier Mills is a very small village located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,605 people and just one neighborhood, Carrier Mills is the 611th largest community in Illinois.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Carrier Mills is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Carrier Mills is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carrier Mills who work in office and administrative support (20.58%), management occupations (10.51%), and healthcare suport services (7.30%).
Also of interest is that Carrier Mills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Carrier Mills has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Carrier Mills a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Carrier Mills is a small village, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Carrier Mills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.04% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small village, Carrier Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Carrier Mills is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.02% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Carrier Mills in 2022 was $27,978, which is low income relative to Illinois, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,912 for a family of four. However, Carrier Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Carrier Mills is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Carrier Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Carrier Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Carrier Mills include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Carrier Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
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 Carrier Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 90.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Carrier Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.1% 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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.6%), and 11.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Carrier Mills, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.4%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.2%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
