GleneagleCO
A town of 6,440.
Is Gleneagle a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Gleneagle grades A overall, 26th among Colorado's 158 graded towns. Residents are healthier than 97% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. The median household earns $140K and its public schools beat 93% of Colorado towns on state tests and graduation. The catch is cost: the typical home is worth about $605K, 6.7 years of the Colorado Springs metro’s $90K median household income. Gleneagle’s trail density is 2.5 miles per square mile, where Colorado’s towns sit at 1.3 and U.S. towns at 0.4. On the outdoors, just 21 of Colorado’s 218 towns do worse.
What makes Gleneagle stand out
Where Gleneagle beats most towns.
98% of working residents leave Gleneagle for work
Where Gleneagle’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Gleneagle grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Colorado), ordered by how far Gleneagle is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Pikes Peak and 23 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Gleneagle. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi MountainPikes Peak
Big draw24 mi LandmarkNorth American Aerospace Defense Command
3 mi Stadium & arenaFalcon Stadium
12 mi Park & preserveGarden of the Gods
15 mi Stadium & arenaWeidner Field
21 mi MountainCheyenne MountainPhoto credits
Pikes Peak: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0 · North American Aerospace Defense Command: Unknown, Public domain · Falcon Stadium: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Garden of the Gods: Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Weidner Field: KM Newnham, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Cheyenne Mountain: Jimmy from Grand Junction, CO, CC BY-SA 2.0
Moving to Gleneagle: who provides what
Gleneagle is unincorporated, so El Paso County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Gleneagle.
Gleneagle has schools in the top 5% of Colorado, has less no health insurance than most of Colorado and has an unusually large share working from home.
Gleneagle’s grade for health is an A+
Its widest gap with Colorado is no health insurance: 5% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 11.1% statewide.
7.4% of Gleneagle adults smoke cigarettes, below both Colorado’s towns (11%) and U.S. towns (14%). 15% of Gleneagle adults get no exercise outside work. Gleneagle beats the Colorado average on 11 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 4.
| Gleneagle | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.4% | 11% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 25% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 26% | 35% |
| What stands out | Gleneagle | CO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5% | 11.1% |
| Fewer smokers | 7.4% | 10.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.5% | 7.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Gleneagle’s grade for schools is an A
Its A ranks #6 of the 159 Colorado towns we grade for schools. Its A for schools comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $605K.
Its public schools are run by the Academy School District No. 20. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antelope Trails Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 311 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CO on state tests and graduation
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
More than half of Gleneagle’s working residents commute to Colorado Springs
29.9% of workers work from home, against 21% across Colorado.
Most working residents leave Gleneagle for work: only 2% work in town. 4% of residents live below the poverty line in Gleneagle. Jobs based in Gleneagle grew to 872 in 2023, 122 more than in 2013.
| Gleneagle | Colorado towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $140,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4% | 8.5% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.4% | 7.8% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Gleneagle has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Gleneagle has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers, with very little rain. Gleneagle’s July high is 84°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Moderate risk in Gleneagle, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 53% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Gleneagle
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Gleneagle
About 5 of every 100 Gleneagle residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Colorado.
Gleneagle’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Gleneagle.
| Town | CO rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gleneagle | #26 | A | C− | — | A | A+ |
| Colorado Springs | #138 | C− | C | D | C | A− |
| Monument | #63 | B+ | D | C+ | A+ | A |
Gleneagle reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Gleneagle with a neighbor →
Questions about Gleneagle
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Gleneagle, CO a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Gleneagle grades A overall, better than 85% of U.S. towns and #26 of 158 in Colorado. It grades A+ for health and A for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Gleneagle, CO expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.