Gilbert is a tiny town located in the state of South Carolina. With a population of 610 people and four associated neighborhoods, Gilbert is the 223rd largest community in South Carolina.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gilbert is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gilbert is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gilbert who work in office and administrative support (18.33%), management occupations (17.00%), and teaching (13.00%). Also of interest is that Gilbert 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: 8.84% 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 town 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!) Gilbert 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. Gilbert has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gilbert than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gilbert may be for you. One downside of living in Gilbert is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gilbert, the average commute to work is 34.17 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Gilbert does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Gilbert is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.11% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Gilbert in 2022 was $45,829, which is wealthy relative to South Carolina, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $183,316 for a family of four. However, Gilbert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gilbert is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gilbert home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gilbert residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gilbert include German, English, Irish, European, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Gilbert is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
