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Goldsboro, MD

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Overview


Goldsboro is a tiny town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 214 people and just one neighborhood, Goldsboro is the 267th largest community in Maryland. Goldsboro has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Goldsboro is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.00% of the Goldsboro workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Goldsboro is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Goldsboro who work in maintenance occupations (18.29%), farm management occupations (8.54%), and sales jobs (7.32%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Goldsboro work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.98% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

One downside of living in Goldsboro, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.89 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

Goldsboro ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.67% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Goldsboro in 2018 was $16,141, which is low income relative to Maryland and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,564 for a family of four. Goldsboro also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.55% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Goldsboro is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Goldsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Goldsboro, accounting for 47.39% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Goldsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Goldsboro include Irish, German, Scottish, Polish, and Greek.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Goldsboro's cultural character, accounting for 24.17% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Goldsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Goldsboro are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 30.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.2%), and 15.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

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 63.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Goldsboro, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (7.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.0%), and residents who report English roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 23.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (12.6%) . 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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