Gilroy, CA
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LIVING IN GILROY
Gilroy CA is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 59,520 people and 13 constituent neighborhoods, Gilroy is the 158th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Gilroy are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don’t compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gilroy is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gilroy is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gilroy who work in office and administrative support (10.83%), management occupations (10.61%), and sales jobs (10.04%).
Also of interest is that Gilroy has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In Gilroy, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.13 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of people in Gilroy who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.64% of adults in Gilroy have at least a bachelor’s degree.
The per capita income in Gilroy in 2018 was $38,449, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,796 for a family of four. However, Gilroy contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gilroy is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gilroy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Gilroy, accounting for 57.59% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gilroy residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gilroy include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Portuguese.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Gilroy’s cultural character, accounting for 24.18% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Gilroy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
This information was found on neighborhoodscout.com