Midland - Midlothian is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 2,484 people and just one neighborhood, Midland - Midlothian is the 182nd largest community in Maryland. Much of the housing stock in Midland - Midlothian was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Midland - Midlothian is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.25% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Midland - Midlothian is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Midland - Midlothian who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (16.78%), sales jobs (11.87%), and food service (9.75%).
Because of many things, Midland - Midlothian is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Midland - Midlothian a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Midland - Midlothian has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Midland - Midlothian’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
As is often the case in a small town, Midland - Midlothian doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of Midland - Midlothian is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.77% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Midland - Midlothian in 2022 was $38,947, which is lower middle income relative to Maryland, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,788 for a family of four. However, Midland - Midlothian contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Midland - Midlothian home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Midland - Midlothian residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Midland - Midlothian include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Midland - Midlothian is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Midland - Midlothian, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (54.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 3.0% have Welsh ancestry.
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 Midland - Midlothian are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% 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, 45.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (23.4%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Midland - Midlothian, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 (60.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.2%) 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.