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.
Midland - Midlothian is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Midland - Midlothian is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Midland - Midlothian who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (13.86%), food service (11.18%), and office and administrative support (9.81%).
Also of interest is that Midland - Midlothian has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small town, Midland - Midlothian does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Midland - Midlothian are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.08% of adults in Midland - Midlothian having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Midland - Midlothian in 2022 was $32,410, which is low income relative to Maryland, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,640 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, Scottish, Irish, English, and Polish.
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.
Our research reveals that 94.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.2% 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.
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, 11.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 4.5% 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 lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.6% 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 59.8% of America'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, 37.8% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (20.9%), and 18.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.0%).
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 Midland - Midlothian, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.7%). There are also a number of people of Scottish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (94.0%) 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.