Gayville is a tiny town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 376 people and just one neighborhood, Gayville is the 120th largest community in South Dakota.
When you are in Gayville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.53% of Gayville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gayville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gayville who work in office and administrative support (12.45%), management occupations (12.45%), and sales jobs (9.73%).
A relatively large number of people in Gayville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.42% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Gayville 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 percentage of adults in Gayville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.84% of adults in Gayville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gayville in 2022 was $34,040, which is middle income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,160 for a family of four. However, Gayville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gayville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gayville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gayville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Gayville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.29% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gayville include German, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Gayville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Scandinavian languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 13.4% have Norwegian ancestry.
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 Gayville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 65.8% of America'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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.0%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Gayville, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Danish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.