Gun Barrel City is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 6,824 people and three associated neighborhoods, Gun Barrel City is the 332nd largest community in Texas.Unlike some cities, Gun Barrel City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gun Barrel City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gun Barrel City is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gun Barrel City who work in office and administrative support (18.05%), sales jobs (11.45%), and management occupations (8.21%). Also of interest is that Gun Barrel City 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: 15.81% 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!) Gun Barrel City 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. Gun Barrel City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gun Barrel City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gun Barrel City may be for you. Gun Barrel City 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 Gun Barrel City are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.94% of adults in Gun Barrel City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Gun Barrel City in 2022 was $38,584, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $154,336 for a family of four. However, Gun Barrel City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Gun Barrel City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gun Barrel City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gun Barrel City include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Czech. The most common language spoken in Gun Barrel City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
