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Glen, MS

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Overview


Glen is a tiny town located in the state of Mississippi. With a population of 375 people and just one neighborhood, Glen is the 240th largest community in Mississippi.

Occupations and Workforce

Glen is a blue-collar town, with 43.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Glen is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen who work in office and administrative support (11.25%), sales jobs (10.63%), and teaching (10.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Glen has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Glen a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

In Glen, just 9.68% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Glen in 2018 was $30,017, which is upper middle income relative to Mississippi, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,068 for a family of four. However, Glen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Glen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Glen include English, Irish, German, British, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Glen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Glen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.2% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 42.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 8.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Glen, MS, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report German roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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