Photo: Dofftoubab · CC BY-SA 4.0Hattiesburg draws more than half of Glendale’s working residents
Only 1% work in Glendale itself; outside it, Hattiesburg draws the most (57%, 4 miles). Glendale grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Glendale stands out on work
More than half of Glendale works in Hattiesburg
300 working residents, 57%, have their main job in Hattiesburg, 4.2 miles away. That’s 57 times as many as work in Glendale itself. The commute map ↓
Most Glendale residents work close to home
67% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Glendale is a place people come home to
There are 122 jobs based in Glendale, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Glendale has about 850 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 529 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Glendale’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Glendale is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Glendale’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (30.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Glendale’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, Glendale could be anywhere from D to C+.
Where people from Glendale work
Where Glendale clocks in
57% of workers
5% 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.
How far Glendale’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
Glendale by day and by night
On a workday 523 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Glendale on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.23 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.
A place that makes things: 44% of Glendale’s jobs are in goods
122 jobs are based in Glendale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glendale, 2013 → 2023: 37 → 122. 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 Glendale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Glendale: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glendale workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 615 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% 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.
Getting around Glendale: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glendale is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Glendale near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 683 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). 10.2% of Glendale households have no vehicle (Mississippi 6.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glendale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Glendale comes 3,415th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,621 | Columbus AFB MS | 1,293 | $70K | 6.3% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,859 | Hurley MS | 1,305 | $133K | 12.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,987 | Robinhood MS | 1,298 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,413 | Liberty Township PA | 1,015 | $78K | 18.1% | 2.0% | 4% | C− |
| 3,414 | Westhaven-Moonstone CA | 1,537 | $67K | 15.7% | 16.5% | <1% | C− |
| 3,415 | Glendale MS | 1,257 | $57K | 30.1% | 2.9% | 1% | C− |
| 3,416 | Champlain NY | 1,122 | $65K | 12.5% | 3.8% | 7% | C− |
| 3,417 | Biglerville PA | 1,240 | $52K | 21.8% | 10.2% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Glendale, the top three, the last and three more from Mississippi.
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 Glendale: questions
What is the median household income in Glendale?
$56,818 (±$10,907) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glendale?
30.1%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glendale?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glendale work?
1% work in town.
Is Glendale walkable?
Glendale is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glendale without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glendale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glendale
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.