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Gainesville is a relatively large city located in the state of Florida. With a population of 145,812 people and 42 associated neighborhoods, Gainesville is the 13th largest community in Florida.

Also of interest is that Gainesville 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: 12.42% 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.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Gainesville really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Gainesville is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Gainesville more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Gainesville’s character and quality of life.

Not only is Gainesville a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Gainesville has a lot of people who ride the bus to and from work. In fact, for its size, Gainesville has quite a high level of public transit users. Gainesville’s need for inexpensive transportation options for its citizens is quite high.

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Gainesville. 51.69% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%.

The per capita income in Gainesville in 2022 was $30,282, which is lower middle income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,128 for a family of four. However, Gainesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gainesville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gainesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gainesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gainesville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.35% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gainesville include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Gainesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.