Glen Rose is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,817 people and three associated neighborhoods, Glen Rose is the 558th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Glen Rose was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Glen Rose economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Glen Rose, where the median household income is $73,804.00.

A relatively large number of people in Glen Rose telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.86% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Glen Rose has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Glen Rose has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Glen Rose than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Glen Rose may be for you.

Being a small city, Glen Rose does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of Glen Rose are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.42% of adults in Glen Rose having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Glen Rose in 2022 was $35,086, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,344 for a family of four. However, Glen Rose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Glen Rose is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Glen Rose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Glen Rose residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Glen Rose also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.16% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Glen Rose include English, German, Irish, French, and European.

The most common language spoken in Glen Rose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.