Gerald is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,342 people and two associated neighborhoods, Gerald is the 325th largest community in Missouri.When you are in Gerald, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.00% of Gerald’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gerald is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gerald who work in office and administrative support (14.89%), sales jobs (9.22%), and computer science and math (5.99%). Also of interest is that Gerald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Gerald telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.62% 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!) Gerald 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. Gerald has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gerald than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gerald may be for you. One downside of living in Gerald is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gerald, the average commute to work is 31.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small city, Gerald does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Gerald rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.90% of adults 25 and older in Gerald 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 Gerald in 2022 was $29,561, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,244 for a family of four. However, Gerald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gerald is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gerald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gerald residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gerald include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Gerald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Vietnamese.
