Photo: Hot Furnace · CC BY-SA 4.0Glenmora’s household incomes are among the lowest in the country
Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. 36.4% of residents are in poverty (Louisiana 18.9%). Jobs and income earn Glenmora D−; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Glenmora in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Glenmora
On income, poverty and job access, Glenmora is better than 2% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Glenmora’s grade up (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($31,839, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.1%) is left out: Glenmora’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Glenmora could be anywhere from D− to D.
Half of Glenmora commutes less than 25 miles
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Glenmora on a workday afternoon
On a workday 334 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 117 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Glenmora on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.37 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.
23% of working residents work in Alexandria
Where Glenmora clocks in
23% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Goods jobs make up 47% of work in Glenmora
125 jobs are based in Glenmora.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glenmora, 2013 → 2023: 166 → 125. 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 Glenmora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Glenmora, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glenmora workers work from home, vs 8% across Louisiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 433 commuters (the <1% who work from home are left out). Across Louisiana: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Most of Glenmora commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glenmora is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.3% across Louisiana, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 435 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 14.3% of Glenmora households have no vehicle (Louisiana 8.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glenmora’s commuters take a bus or train.
Glenmora next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 734 | Watson LA | 1,357 | $97K | 17.2% | 3.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 744 | Egan LA | 1,015 | $93K | 10.3% | 6.9% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 953 | Choudrant LA | 1,032 | $73K | 8.1% | 0.5% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,986 | Vienna IL | 1,352 | $41K | 33.6% | 1.2% | 16% | D− |
| 2,987 | Cloverport KY | 1,153 | $37K | 32.1% | 13.4% | 3% | D− |
| 2,988 | Glenmora LA | 1,040 | $32K | 36.4% | 9.1% | 2% | D− |
| 2,989 | Cleon Township MI | 1,057 | $52K | 27.1% | 5.9% | 4% | D− |
| 2,990 | Briggs OK | 1,131 | $47K | 28.4% | 9.9% | 2% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Glenmora, the top three, the last and three more from Louisiana.
How Glenmora compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glenmora workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenmora | – | D− | C | 30 min | $31,839 |
| McNary | under 1% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. McNary: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Glenmora’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Glenmora: questions
What is the median household income in Glenmora?
$31,839 (±$7,241) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $60,756 across Louisiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glenmora?
36.4%, against 18.9% across Louisiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glenmora?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Louisiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glenmora work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (23%, 23 mi), Forest Hill (4%, 6 mi), Lafayette (4%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glenmora walkable?
Glenmora is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glenmora without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glenmora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glenmora
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.