Hillsboro is a tiny town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 133 people and just one neighborhood, Hillsboro is the 272nd largest community in Maryland. Hillsboro has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Hillsboro is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hillsboro is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hillsboro who work in personal care services (19.12%), sales jobs (16.18%), and food service (10.29%).
Also of interest is that Hillsboro has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Hillsboro’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Hillsboro, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.64 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Hillsboro doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Hillsboro citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.86% of adults 25 and older in Hillsboro have a college degree.
The per capita income in Hillsboro in 2022 was $29,232, which is low income relative to Maryland, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,928 for a family of four. However, Hillsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hillsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hillsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hillsboro include German, Irish, English, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Hillsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Serbo-Croatian and Italian.
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.
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 Hillsboro are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.8% 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 71.8% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 46.0% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.0%), and 10.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 97.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Hillsboro, MD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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.