Midlothian is a medium-sized town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 38,660 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Midlothian is the 26th largest community in Virginia.

Midlothian is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Midlothian is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Midlothian who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.00%), sales jobs (14.43%), and management occupations (11.89%).

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

In addition, Midlothian 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, Midlothian 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, Midlothian really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Midlothian 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.

"If you live in Midlothian, you are going to have to drive to get to work," say area residents. At least that is what most Midlothian residents do (99%). Midlothian is primarily built for cars, and driving around town will bare this out. Shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets are what you'll find. Sidewalks? Sure. But not everywhere, and walking to most places can be downright scary.

Midlothian is a decent-sized town, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the town has no real transit system.

Midlothian Information and Demographics

The education level of Midlothian citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 39.68% of adults in Midlothian have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Midlothian in 2000 was $26,140, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,560 for a family of four. However, Midlothian contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Midlothian is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Midlothian home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Midlothian is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Midlothian include German, English, Irish, Italian, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Midlothian is English.