Being a small city, Gainesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Gainesville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.04% of the adults in Gainesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gainesville in 2022 was $25,016, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,064 for a family of four. However, Gainesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gainesville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gainesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gainesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gainesville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gainesville include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Gainesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
