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." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Gates Mills is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Gates Mills a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Gates Mills has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Gates Mills's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Being a small village, Gates Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Gates Mills Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Gates Mills is a pretty powerful place. 66.82% of the adults in Gates Mills have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

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.