Glasgow is a very small city located in the state of Montana. With a population of 3,192 people and just one neighborhood, Glasgow is the 30th largest community in Montana.
Glasgow is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Glasgow is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Glasgow who work in office and administrative support (21.43%), sales jobs (9.28%), and healthcare (8.42%).
Also of interest is that Glasgow has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Glasgow spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 11.59 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
In terms of college education, Glasgow is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.83% of adults 25 and older in Glasgow have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Glasgow in 2022 was $32,294, which is middle income relative to Montana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,176 for a family of four. However, Glasgow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Glasgow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glasgow residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Glasgow include German, Norwegian, Irish, Swedish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Glasgow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Glasgow, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 83.9% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.9% have Hungarian ancestry.
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 Glasgow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.1% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.8%), and 18.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.0%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Glasgow, MT, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report English roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (83.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (11.4%) and 8.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.