Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0A job hub: Middleburg has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 1,045 people come in to work
1,093 jobs are based in Middleburg, against 555 working residents. Jobs and income earn Middleburg C; getting around on foot earns it A. Household incomes here are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Middleburg
Middleburg is where the jobs are
Middleburg has 1,093 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,800 people are in town, 41% more than the 1,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Middleburg makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Middleburg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Middleburg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Middleburg are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 555 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Middleburg
On income, poverty and job access, Middleburg is better than 32% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Middleburg’s grade up (9.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($58,523, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Middleburg’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Middleburg could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How a workday changes Middleburg
On a workday 507 residents head out to work and 48 work right here.
About 1,800 people are in Middleburg on a workday afternoon, 41% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
In Middleburg, 42% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Middleburg, 2014 → 2024: 1,326 → 1,093. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Middleburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Middleburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 575 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Commuting in to Middleburg: where workers come from
Where Middleburg clocks in
6% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
How far Middleburg goes to work
About 20% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Middleburg
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Middleburg is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 625 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.9% of Middleburg households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Middleburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Middleburg places 2,945th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,943 | Plum Grove TX | 1,677 | $66K | 16.9% | 2.7% | 1% | C |
| 2,944 | Burnside Township PA | 1,042 | $70K | 8.3% | 4.1% | 5% | C |
| 2,945 | Middleburg PA | 1,302 | $59K | 9.7% | 3.1% | 9% | C |
| 2,946 | Bennington Township IL | 1,542 | $71K | 13.6% | 4.7% | 18% | C |
| 2,947 | Onarga Township IL | 1,581 | $72K | 10.1% | 3.7% | 10% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Middleburg, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Middleburg: questions
What is the median household income in Middleburg?
$58,523 (±$11,619) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Middleburg?
9.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Middleburg?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Middleburg work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Penn Township (6%, 8 mi), Mifflinburg (6%, 9 mi), Franklin Township (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Middleburg walkable?
Middleburg is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Middleburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Middleburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Middleburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.