Gainesboro is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 936 people and four associated neighborhoods, Gainesboro is the 284th largest community in Tennessee.

A relatively large number of people in Gainesboro telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.62% 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.

Overall, Gainesboro’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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, Gainesboro has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gainesboro a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Gainesboro, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Gainesboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The percentage of people in Gainesboro with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.07% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gainesboro in 2022 was $22,192, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,768 for a family of four. However, Gainesboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gainesboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gainesboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gainesboro include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Gainesboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.