Gate City is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,023 people and just one neighborhood, Gate City is the 218th largest community in Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Gate City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gate City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gate City is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gate City who work in office and administrative support (18.35%), teaching (17.10%), and sales jobs (10.86%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Gate City. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
Also of interest is that Gate City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Gate City is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Gate City citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.96% of adults in Gate City have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Gate City in 2022 was $32,629, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $130,516 for a family of four. However, Gate City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gate City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gate City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gate City include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Gate City is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gate City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 91.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
With 2.9% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 97.3% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
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, 6.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gate City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.6%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Gate City, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.0%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.