Middlebury is a somewhat small town located in the state of Connecticut. With a population of 6,531 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Middlebury is the 117th largest community in Connecticut.

Middlebury is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.99% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Middlebury is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Middlebury who work in management occupations (16.81%), office and administrative support jobs (11.70%), and teaching (11.15%).

Also of interest is that Middlebury has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Middlebury is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Middlebury is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Middlebury really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Middlebury perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Middlebury is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Middlebury isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.47% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Middlebury 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.

Middlebury Information and Demographics

The citizens of Middlebury are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 41.46% of adults in Middlebury have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Middlebury in 2000 was $33,056, which is upper middle income relative to Connecticut, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,224 for a family of four.

The people who call Middlebury home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Middlebury is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Middlebury include Italian, Irish, English, Polish, German, French, and Lithuanian.

The most common language spoken in Middlebury is English.