Gillsville is a tiny city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 314 people and just one neighborhood, Gillsville is the 446th largest community in Georgia.
When you are in Gillsville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.62% of Gillsville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gillsville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gillsville who work in office and administrative support (15.17%), maintenance occupations (9.66%), and teaching (7.59%).
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.
One downside of living in Gillsville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gillsville, the average commute to work is 31.41 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Gillsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Gillsville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.79% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gillsville in 2022 was $27,064, 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 $108,256 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 English, Irish, Scottish, Acadian/Cajun, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Gillsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.2% of American neighborhoods.
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 lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 41.6% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.2%), and 12.6% 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 85.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.9%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Gillsville, GA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (9.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.4%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (2.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (14.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.