Sparks Glencoe is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 4,807 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Sparks Glencoe is the 181st largest community in Maryland.

Sparks Glencoe is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.67% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sparks Glencoe is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sparks Glencoe who work in management occupations (20.28%), office and administrative support jobs (12.21%), and sales jobs (11.52%).

Also of interest is that Sparks Glencoe has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Sparks Glencoe is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Sparks Glencoe is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Sparks Glencoe, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.84% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Despite the fact that Sparks Glencoe is a relatively small town, the public transit system is fairly well used to commute to work. Many people choose to use the train, often traveling to the central city in the region.

Sparks Glencoe Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Sparks Glencoe, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Sparks Glencoe is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 47.05% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Sparks Glencoe in 2000 was $39,438, which is wealthy relative to Maryland and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,752 for a family of four. However, Sparks Glencoe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sparks Glencoe home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sparks Glencoe is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sparks Glencoe include German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Sparks Glencoe is English. Some people also speak Spanish.