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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. Much of the housing stock in Goldsboro was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Goldsboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.00% of Goldsboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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%).

Another important characteristic of Goldsboro is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Goldsboro telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.98% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

In Goldsboro, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.89 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Goldsboro 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.

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 2022 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

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 Goldsboro, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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.

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, 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

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 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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