It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Gilbert 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. Gilbert has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gilbert than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gilbert may be for you.
In Gilbert, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.77 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Gilbert is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Gilbert is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.02% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Gilbert in 2022 was $40,259, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,036 for a family of four. However, Gilbert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gilbert is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gilbert home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gilbert residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gilbert also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.78% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gilbert include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Gilbert is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
