Glen is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 375 people and just one neighborhood, Glen is the 240th largest community in Mississippi.
Glen is a blue-collar town, with 43.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Glen is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen who work in office and administrative support (11.25%), sales jobs (10.63%), and teaching (10.00%).
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!) Glen 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. Glen has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Glen than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Glen may be for you.
Glen 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.
The citizens of Glen have a very low rate of college education: just 9.68% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Glen in 2022 was $30,017, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,068 for a family of four. However, Glen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Glen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Glen include English, Irish, German, British, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Glen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of American neighborhoods.
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 are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.2% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 42.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 8.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.4%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Glen, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.