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.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 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.
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, 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.
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 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.