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Glen St. Mary, FL

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Overview


Glen St. Mary is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 481 people and just one neighborhood, Glen St. Mary is the 467th largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Glen St. Mary is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.23% of the Glen St. Mary workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Glen St. Mary is a town of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen St. Mary who work in management occupations (24.53%), healthcare (8.49%), and office and administrative support (4.25%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Glen St. Mary, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.87 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Glen St. Mary 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.

Demographics

Glen St. Mary ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.55% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Glen St. Mary in 2022 was $21,626, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,504 for a family of four. However, Glen St. Mary contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Glen St. Mary also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Glen St. Mary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen St. Mary residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Glen St. Mary include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Glen St. Mary is English. Other important languages spoken here include Urdu and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Glen St. Mary are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 31.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 31.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 14.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Glen St. Mary, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report German roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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