Gainesville is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 17,912 people and six associated neighborhoods, Gainesville is the 166th largest community in Texas.Gainesville is a blue-collar town, with 37.21% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gainesville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gainesville who work in office and administrative support (13.34%), food service (7.44%), and teaching (6.71%). 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.
