About Gooding

Gooding is a somewhat small town located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 5,956 people and just one neighborhood, Gooding is the 31st largest community in Idaho.

When you are in Gooding, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.8% of Gooding's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Gooding is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gooding who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.51%), sales jobs (8.61%), and teaching (6.45%).

Another important characteristic of Gooding is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Gooding telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.92% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Being a small town, Gooding does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Gooding Information and Demographics

In Gooding, just 11.46% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Gooding in 2000 was $14,371, which is middle income relative to Idaho, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $57,484 for a family of four.

The people who call Gooding home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Gooding is White, followed by African-American. Gooding also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.06% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Gooding include German, English, Irish, Dutch, Basque, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Gooding is English. Some people also speak Spanish.