About Gates Mills

Gates Mills is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,448 people and just one neighborhood, Gates Mills is the 495th largest community in Ohio.

Gates Mills is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 96.26% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Gates Mills is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gates Mills who work in management occupations (26.44%), sales jobs (15.05%), and healthcare (14.89%).

A relatively large number of people in Gates Mills telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.75% 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.

In addition, Gates Mills is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Gates Mills is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Gates Mills really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Gates Mills perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

As is often the case in a small village, Gates Mills doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Gates Mills Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Gates Mills, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Gates Mills is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 66.82% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Gates Mills in 2000 was $74,732, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $298,928 for a family of four. However, Gates Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gates Mills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Gates Mills is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gates Mills include Italian, Irish, German, English, Hungarian, Slovene, Polish, Russian, Welsh, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Gates Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Spanish.