About Glen Gardner

Glen Gardner is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 5,951 people and just one neighborhood, Glen Gardner is the 305th largest community in New Jersey.

Unlike some towns , Glen Gardner isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Glen Gardner are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glen Gardner is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen Gardner who work in sales jobs (13.34%), management occupations (12.87%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.27%).

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

One downside of living in Glen Gardner is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Glen Gardner, the average commute to work is 38.02 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Glen Gardner is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Glen Gardner isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.62% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Glen Gardner doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Glen Gardner Information and Demographics

The citizens of Glen Gardner are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.76% of adults in Glen Gardner have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Glen Gardner in 2000 was $31,724, which is upper middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,896 for a family of four. However, Glen Gardner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Glen Gardner home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Glen Gardner is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Glen Gardner include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, English, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Glen Gardner is English.