Glencoe is a somewhat small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,404 people and two associated neighborhoods, Glencoe is the 113th largest community in Alabama.Glencoe is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Glencoe is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Glencoe who work in healthcare (13.72%), office and administrative support (12.71%), and management occupations (10.50%). Because of many things, Glencoe is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Glencoe really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Glencoe perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Glencoe has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Glencoe a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.The education level of Glencoe citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.44% of adults in Glencoe have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Glencoe in 2022 was $33,056, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,224 for a family of four. However, Glencoe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Glencoe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glencoe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Glencoe include Irish, English, German, French, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Glencoe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
