Photo: Camerafiend · CC BY-SA 4.0Glasgow has higher household incomes than 86% of U.S. towns
Only 3% work in Glasgow itself; outside it, Wilmington draws the most (9%, 15 miles). Below the poverty line: 8.0% of residents, where Delaware as a whole has 10.4%. For jobs and income Glasgow is better than 66% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Glasgow
Why Glasgow gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Glasgow’s grade up ($113,982, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Glasgow could be anywhere from B− to A.
Jobs in Glasgow: what the 4,531 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glasgow, 2013 → 2023: 5,557 → 4,531. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Glasgow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Glasgow by day and by night
On a workday 7,145 residents head out to work, 248 work right here, and 4,283 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Glasgow on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Glasgow commutes to
Where Glasgow clocks in
9% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 29 minutes each way for Glasgow’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glasgow workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,796 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Glasgow
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Glasgow, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 8,010 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 2% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 9.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 92% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.9% of Glasgow households have no vehicle (Delaware 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Glasgow’s commuters take a bus or train.
Glasgow is 1,020th of 2,109 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 21,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Hockessin DE | 13,439 | $171K | 1.5% | 2.4% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 932 | Pike Creek Valley DE | 12,431 | $102K | 6.2% | 6.2% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,018 | Lloyd NY | 11,143 | $92K | 5.4% | 5.7% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,019 | Whitestown NY | 17,697 | $80K | 10.4% | 2.9% | 15% | B+ |
| 1,020 | Glasgow DE | 15,546 | $114K | 8.0% | 6.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,021 | Lakeland North WA | 15,950 | $105K | 14.4% | 4.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,022 | Yelm WA | 12,043 | $91K | 6.1% | 3.8% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,406 | Brookside DE | 15,115 | $78K | 14.6% | 6.1% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,109 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Glasgow, the top three, the last and three more from Delaware.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Glasgow: questions
What is the median household income in Glasgow?
$113,982 (±$4,665) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $84,954 across Delaware and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glasgow?
8.0%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glasgow?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glasgow work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (9%, 15 mi), Newark (5%, 5 mi), New Castle (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glasgow walkable?
Glasgow is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glasgow without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glasgow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glasgow
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.