Gerald is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 1,342 people and two associated neighborhoods, Gerald is the 325th largest community in Missouri.When you are in Gerald, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.00% of Gerald’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gerald is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gerald who work in office and administrative support (14.89%), sales jobs (9.22%), and computer science and math (5.99%). Also of interest is that Gerald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.62% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gerald has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gerald has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gerald than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gerald may be for you. In Gerald, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.33 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Gerald is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Gerald are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.90% of adults in Gerald have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Gerald in 2022 was $29,561, which is upper middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,244 for a family of four. However, Gerald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gerald is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gerald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gerald residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gerald include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Gerald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Vietnamese.
