Gillsville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 308 people and just one neighborhood, Gillsville is the 446th largest community in Georgia.
Gillsville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gillsville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gillsville who work in office and administrative support (16.42%), sales jobs (14.18%), and food service (9.70%).
Also of interest is that Gillsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Gillsville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small city, Gillsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Gillsville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.33% of adults in Gillsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Gillsville in 2022 was $24,916, which is middle income relative to Georgia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,664 for a family of four. However, Gillsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gillsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gillsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gillsville include Irish, English, Scottish, German, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Gillsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gillsville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gillsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 40.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.4%), and 12.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.0%).
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 Gillsville, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (10.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.8%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 10.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.