Gun Barrel City is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 6,999 people and three associated neighborhoods, Gun Barrel City is the 332nd largest community in Texas.Gun Barrel City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gun Barrel City is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gun Barrel City who work in office and administrative support (14.17%), sales jobs (12.02%), and teaching (9.44%). Also of interest is that Gun Barrel City 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 Gun Barrel City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.40% 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. The city 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, Gun Barrel City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gun Barrel City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. As is often the case in a small city, Gun Barrel City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of adults in Gun Barrel City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.79% of the adults in Gun Barrel City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Gun Barrel City in 2022 was $38,080, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,320 for a family of four. However, Gun Barrel City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Gun Barrel City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gun Barrel City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gun Barrel City include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Czech. The most common language spoken in Gun Barrel City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
