Glen Historic District · Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0Fewer people are out of work in Glen (0.1%) than in 98% of U.S. towns
Glen grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 7% work in Glen; the top destination outside it is Mohawk (8%, 5 miles). Home is the office for 8% of workers, against 15% across New York.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Glen, in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Glen
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Glen is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #364 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Glen’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (16.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Glen could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Goods jobs make up 50% of work in Glen
836 jobs are based in Glen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glen, 2013 → 2023: 804 → 836. 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 Glen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 800 residents head out to work, 62 work right here, and 774 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Glen’s working residents head each day
Where Glen clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
Glen’s commute takes about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glen workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 929 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far Glen’s workers travel
About 19% 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.
Few in Glen walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glen is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns, #519 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, 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 1,012 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). 8.0% of Glen households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Glen places 1,894th of 4,797 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,892 | Forreston Township IL | 1,952 | $72K | 5.5% | 5.5% | 9% | B |
| 1,893 | Brown Township IN | 2,567 | $83K | 8.3% | 4.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,894 | Glen NY | 2,649 | $84K | 16.4% | 0.1% | 7% | B |
| 1,895 | Mifflin Township PA | 2,365 | $61K | 10.7% | 0.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,896 | Coaling AL | 2,003 | $81K | 3.7% | 8.5% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Glen, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
12% of Glen works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glen workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen | – | B | B− | 32 min | $83,750 |
| Florida | 4% | B− | C | 26 min | $93,008 |
| Mohawk | 8% | B+ | C+ | 20 min | $81,473 |
| Charleston | under 3% | B | C | 34 min | $91,417 |
| Root | under 3% | C+ | C+ | 29 min | $75,771 |
| Tribes Hill | under 3% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Fultonville | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Fonda | under 3% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Tribes Hill: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Fultonville and Fonda: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Mohawk. Darker towns draw more of Glen’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 Glen: questions
What is the median household income in Glen?
$83,750 (±$16,251) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glen?
16.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glen?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glen work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mohawk (8%, 5 mi), Amsterdam (6%, 9 mi), Albany (6%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glen walkable?
Glen is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glen without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glen
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.