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 concentration of trails 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.
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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.
Gleneagle: 30% of adults have high blood pressure, above Colorado’s towns (27%) but below U.S. towns (35%). Among 159 Colorado towns, just 4 have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Gleneagle. For adults here, the share who report frequent mental distress is 14%. Against the Colorado average, Gleneagle comes out ahead on 11 CDC measures out of 26, and behind 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
That grade ranks #6 of the 159 Colorado towns we grade for schools. It comes with a C− for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $605K.
Its one school is below. The Academy School District No. 20 runs its public schools. Gleneagle’s only public school teaches 311 students.
| 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.
Among working residents in Gleneagle, 2.4% work locally. Jobs in Gleneagle grew by 122 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 872. The top destinations are Colorado Springs (51%), Denver (8%) and Aurora (4%). Half the trips to work are shorter than 14 miles.
| 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
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Gleneagle has a moderate natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Gleneagle sits above 53% of U.S. communities. 35% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by wildfires at 28%.
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−.