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Gainesville - Pontiac, MO

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Overview


Gainesville - Pontiac is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,725 people and just one neighborhood, Gainesville - Pontiac is the 230th largest community in Missouri.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Gainesville - Pontiac, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.18% of Gainesville - Pontiac’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gainesville - Pontiac is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gainesville - Pontiac who work in management occupations (10.91%), healthcare (9.88%), and healthcare suport services (8.34%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.23% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Gainesville - Pontiac 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. Gainesville - Pontiac has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gainesville - Pontiac than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gainesville - Pontiac may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Gainesville - Pontiac doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Gainesville - Pontiac with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gainesville - Pontiac in 2022 was $22,757, 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 $91,028 for a family of four. Gainesville - Pontiac also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.98% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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, English, Irish, French, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Gainesville - Pontiac is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 12.5% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 96.2% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 15 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.6% 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, 40.2% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.4%), and 13.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 (14.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (64.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (12.5%) and 9.5% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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