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Middleburgh, NY

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Overview


Middleburgh is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,164 people and just one neighborhood, Middleburgh is the 731st largest community in New York. Middleburgh has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Middleburgh is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Middleburgh is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Middleburgh who work in teaching (10.40%), food service (10.23%), and office and administrative support (10.07%).

A relatively large number of people in Middleburgh telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.67% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Middleburgh’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Middleburgh has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Middleburgh a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small village, Middleburgh does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Middleburgh overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Middleburgh, 21.33% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Middleburgh in 2022 was $40,259, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,036 for a family of four. However, Middleburgh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Middleburgh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Middleburgh residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Middleburgh include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Middleburgh is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Indo-European and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.5% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in New York, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in New York.

The Neighbors

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 Middleburgh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.6% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 33.4% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Middleburgh, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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