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Glasco, NY

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Overview


Glasco is a very small town located in the state of New York. With a population of 2,013 people and just one neighborhood, Glasco is the 594th largest community in New York. Glasco has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Glasco, where the median household income is $56,875.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Glasco is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.86% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Glasco is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glasco who work in office and administrative support (13.65%), healthcare (10.86%), and sales jobs (9.56%).

Of important note, Glasco is also a town of artists. Glasco has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Glasco’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Glasco does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Glasco who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.91% of adults in Glasco have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Glasco in 2018 was $40,900, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,600 for a family of four. However, Glasco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Glasco is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Glasco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glasco residents report their race to be White. Glasco also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.29% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Glasco include Italian, German, Irish, Dutch, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Glasco is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Glasco is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NY, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.7% of the neighborhoods in New York. If you are considering retiring to New York, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 4.4% have Cuban ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Glasco are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 47.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 11.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Glasco, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (22.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report German roots (15.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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