Gainesville is a medium-sized city located in the state of Georgia. With a population of 45,282 people and 36 associated neighborhoods, Gainesville is the 21st largest community in Georgia.Gainesville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gainesville is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gainesville who work in office and administrative support (10.10%), sales jobs (8.37%), and management occupations (7.65%). Also of interest is that Gainesville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The percentage of people in Gainesville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.18% of adults in Gainesville have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Gainesville in 2022 was $31,619, which is upper middle income relative to Georgia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,476 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 36.40% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gainesville include English, Irish, German, African, and Italian. Foreign born people are also an important part of Gainesville's cultural character, accounting for 22.19% of the city’s population. The most common language spoken in Gainesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
