Mill Spring is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 4,974 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mill Spring is the 164th largest community in North Carolina. Mill Spring real estate is some of the most expensive in North Carolina, although Mill Spring house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mill Spring is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mill Spring is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mill Spring who work in office and administrative support (15.38%), sales jobs (13.20%), and healthcare suport services (9.39%). 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!) Mill Spring 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. Mill Spring has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mill Spring than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mill Spring may be for you. One downside of living in Mill Spring is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mill Spring, the average commute to work is 37.04 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Mill Spring is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The education level of Mill Spring citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.03% of adults in Mill Spring have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mill Spring in 2022 was $40,170, which is wealthy relative to North Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,680 for a family of four. However, Mill Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mill Spring is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mill Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mill Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mill Spring also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.85% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mill Spring include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and French. The most common language spoken in Mill Spring is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
