Glen Rock is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,119 people and two associated neighborhoods, Glen Rock is the 628th largest community in Pennsylvania. Glen Rock has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs. Glen Rock real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Glen Rock house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Glen Rock is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Glen Rock is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Glen Rock who work in management occupations (13.58%), office and administrative support (9.76%), and sales jobs (8.43%). Also of interest is that Glen Rock has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.78% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. One downside of living in Glen Rock is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Glen Rock, the average commute to work is 30.90 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Glen Rock is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The overall education level of Glen Rock citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.06% of adults in Glen Rock have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%. The per capita income in Glen Rock in 2022 was $31,470, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $125,880 for a family of four. However, Glen Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Glen Rock is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Glen Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Glen Rock also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.03% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Glen Rock include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Glen Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
