Glendora is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 50,824 people and 13 associated neighborhoods, Glendora is the 175th largest community in California. Housing costs in Glendora are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Glendora is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glendora is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glendora who work in office and administrative support (15.31%), management occupations (11.51%), and sales jobs (10.26%). Also of interest is that Glendora has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.18% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. One downside of living in Glendora is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Glendora, the average commute to work is 32.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. The education level of Glendora citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.34% of adults in Glendora have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Glendora in 2022 was $45,796, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $183,184 for a family of four. However, Glendora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Glendora is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Glendora home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glendora residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Glendora also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 40.05% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Glendora include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish. In addition, Glendora has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (18.61%). The most common language spoken in Glendora is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
