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.
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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Gilbert has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gilbert a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Gilbert, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.17 minutes every day commuting to work.
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.