Middleburg is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 103 people and just one neighborhood, Middleburg is the 575th largest community in North Carolina.
Middleburg is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.59% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Middleburg is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Middleburg who work in business and financial occupations (23.17%), sales jobs (17.07%), and office and administrative support (15.85%).
The overall crime rate in Middleburg is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Middleburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Middleburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Middleburg, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.38 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Middleburg 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.
In terms of college education, Middleburg ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Middleburg in 2022 was $28,916, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,664 for a family of four. However, Middleburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Middleburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.60% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Middleburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Middleburg residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Middleburg include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Middleburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Persian and Greek.
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.
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 Middleburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.2% 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, 36.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.
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 Middleburg, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.