Leesburg is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Leesburg enrolled in college, Leesburg has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
The town 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, Leesburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Leesburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Leesburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Leesburg rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.81% of adults 25 and older in Leesburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Leesburg in 2022 was $33,982, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,928 for a family of four. However, Leesburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Leesburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leesburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Leesburg include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Leesburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
