Middlesex, NC Population, Airports, Hospitals & Zip Codes
Population: 838. Estimated population in July 2020: 851 (+1.6% change)
Males: 392 (46.8%), Females: 446 (53.2%)
Nash County
Zip code: 27557
Median resident age: 37.6 years
Median household income: $21,458
Median house value: $72,300
Races in Middlesex:
- White Non-Hispanic (59.9%)
- Black (32.7%)
- Hispanic (7.5%)
- Other race (3.6%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)
Ancestries: English (14.3%), United States (8.1%), German (2.4%), Irish (2.1%), Scotch-Irish (1.7%).
Elevation: 260 feet
Land area: 1.0 square miles
Population
For population 25 years and over in Middlesex
- High school or higher: 63.4%
- Bachelor’s degree or higher: 8.6%
- Graduate or professional degree: 1.2%
- Unemployed: 9.7%
- Mean travel time to work: 28.7 minutes
For population 15 years and over in Middlesex town
- Never married: 29.7%
- Now married: 40.2%
- Separated: 5.1%
- Widowed: 15.9%
- Divorced: 9.0%
6.6% Foreign born (6.6% Latin America).
Population change in the 1990s: +97 (+13.1%).
Hospitals
- FRANKLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (about 19 miles; LOUISBURG, NC)
- WILSON MEDICAL CENTER (about 21 miles; WILSON, NC)
- JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (about 22 miles; SMITHFIELD, NC)
Airports
- ROCKY MOUNT-WILSON RGNL (about 23 miles; ROCKY MOUNT, NC; Abbreviation: RWI)
- SEYMOUR JOHNSON AFB (about 36 miles; GOLDSBORO, NC; Abbreviation: GSB)
- RALEIGH-DURHAM INTL (about 41 miles; RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC; Abbreviation: RDU)
- WILSON INDUSTRIAL AIR CENTER (about 17 miles; WILSON, NC; Abbreviation: W03)
- FRANKLIN COUNTY (about 18 miles; LOUISBURG, NC; Abbreviation: LHZ)
- JOHNSTON COUNTY (about 22 miles; SMITHFIELD, NC; Abbreviation: JNX)
- 19 miles: SELMA-SMITHFIELD (SELMA, 401 E. RAILROAD AVE.). Services: public payphones, free short-term parking, free long-term parking, call for taxi service.
Colleges and Universities
- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY AT RALEIGH (about 30 miles; RALEIGH, NC; Full-time enrollment: 23,918)
- SHAW UNIVERSITY (about 30 miles; RALEIGH, NC; Full-time enrollment: 2,299)
- WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 32 miles; RALEIGH, NC; Full-time enrollment: 4,754)
- MEREDITH COLLEGE (about 35 miles; RALEIGH, NC; Full-time enrollment: 2,173)
- VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 41 miles; HENDERSON, NC; Full-time enrollment: 2,076)
- CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY INC (about 46 miles; BUIES CREEK, NC; Full-time enrollment: 5,286)
- DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 46 miles; DURHAM, NC; Full-time enrollment: 2,338)
- MIDDLESEX ELEMENTARY (Students: 364; Location: 13081 WEST HANES RD; Grades: PK – 05)