Gold Hill is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 1,330 people and two associated neighborhoods, Gold Hill is the 177th largest community in Oregon.
Housing costs in Gold Hill are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Oregon.
Also of interest is that Gold Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.00% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) Gold Hill 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. Gold Hill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gold Hill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gold Hill may be for you.
Being a small city, Gold Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Gold Hill, just 10.05% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Gold Hill in 2022 was $28,320, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,280 for a family of four. However, Gold Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gold Hill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gold Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gold Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gold Hill include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Gold Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.