Glen St. Mary is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 481 people and just one neighborhood, Glen St. Mary is the 467th largest community in Florida.
When you are in Glen St. Mary, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.23% of Glen St. Mary’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Glen St. Mary is a town of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen St. Mary who work in management occupations (24.53%), healthcare (8.49%), and office and administrative support (4.25%).
One downside of living in Glen St. Mary is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Glen St. Mary, the average commute to work is 32.87 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Glen St. Mary does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Glen St. Mary has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.55% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Glen St. Mary in 2022 was $21,626, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,504 for a family of four. However, Glen St. Mary contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Glen St. Mary also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.75% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Glen St. Mary home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen St. Mary residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Glen St. Mary include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Glen St. Mary is English. Other important languages spoken here include Urdu and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Glen St. Mary, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 14.5% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Glen St. Mary are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 31.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.4%), and 14.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.0%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Glen St. Mary, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report German roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.