Leesburg is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Leesburg enrolled in college, Leesburg has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Leesburg has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Leesburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leesburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leesburg may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Leesburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Leesburg rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.81% of adults 25 and older in Leesburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Leesburg in 2022 was $33,982, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,928 for a family of four. However, Leesburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Leesburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leesburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Leesburg include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Leesburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
