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.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gillsville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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.
Gillsville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Gillsville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Gillsville rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.33% of adults 25 and older in Gillsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
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%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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.