About Glenmont

Glenmont is a somewhat small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 5,707 people and just one neighborhood, Glenmont is the 340th largest community in New York.

Glenmont is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.85% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Glenmont is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glenmont who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.56%), management occupations (13.69%), and sales jobs (10.69%).

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

In addition, Glenmont 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.

Because of many things, Glenmont is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Glenmont a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Glenmont has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Glenmont's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Glenmont 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.

Glenmont Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Glenmont, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Glenmont is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 46.31% 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 Glenmont in 2000 was $28,160, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,640 for a family of four. However, Glenmont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Glenmont is English.