Gainesville - Pontiac is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,734 people and just one neighborhood, Gainesville - Pontiac is the 230th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gainesville - Pontiac is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.80% of the Gainesville - Pontiac workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gainesville - Pontiac is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gainesville - Pontiac who work in office and administrative support (11.39%), healthcare (10.46%), and sales jobs (8.45%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gainesville - Pontiac has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gainesville - Pontiac a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Gainesville - Pontiac does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Gainesville - Pontiac is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gainesville - Pontiac in 2022 was $24,712, which is lower middle income relative to Missouri, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,848 for a family of four. However, Gainesville - Pontiac contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gainesville - Pontiac home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gainesville - Pontiac residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gainesville - Pontiac include German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Gainesville - Pontiac is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Polish.
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 Gainesville - Pontiac, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 35.7%, which is higher than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Gainesville - Pontiac are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.6% 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, 37.5% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.
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 Gainesville - Pontiac, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scots-Irish 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.5%) 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 (21.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.