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.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Midland - Midlothian is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American 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 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 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.
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 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.