Overview
Glenford is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 164 people and just one neighborhood, Glenford is the 792nd largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Glenford was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Glenford real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Glenford house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some villages, Glenford isn鈥檛 mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Glenford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Glenford is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Glenford who work in office and administrative support (18.71%), sales jobs (16.13%), and food service (14.84%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Glenford鈥檚 overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Glenford is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The population of Glenford has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.52% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Glenford in 2022 was $31,425, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $125,700 for a family of four. However, Glenford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Glenford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glenford residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Glenford include German, English, Italian, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Glenford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by 蘑菇视频's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
People
Of note is 蘑菇视频's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 7.7% have Scottish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Glenford are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 40.3% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 鈥� some more unique than others 鈥� based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households 鈥� and importantly 鈥� 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 Glenford, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report English roots (17.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (7.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (7.6%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
