Glencoe is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 351 people and just one neighborhood, Glencoe is the 344th largest community in Kentucky.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Glencoe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 49.51% of the Glencoe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Glencoe is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glencoe who work in management occupations (10.89%), food service (8.91%), and sales jobs (5.94%).
The city 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, Glencoe has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Glencoe a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Glencoe is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Glencoe ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.82% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Glencoe in 2022 was $23,774, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,096 for a family of four. However, Glencoe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Glencoe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glencoe residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Glencoe include English, Swiss, Italian, Irish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Glencoe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Glencoe, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 48.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.6% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Glencoe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.6% 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, 48.8% 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 (15.4%), and 7.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Glencoe, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
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 (33.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.