About Gate City

Gate City is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,169 people and just one neighborhood, Gate City is the 244th largest community in Virginia.

Gate City is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Gate City is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gate City who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.78%), sales jobs (10.22%), and food service (7.49%).

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.52 minutes getting to work every day.

Despite being a small town, Gate City has a lot of people using taxis to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on taxis are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.

Gate City Information and Demographics

The population of Gate City overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Gate City, 17.60% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Gate City in 2000 was $19,268, which is middle income relative to Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $77,072 for a family of four.

The people who call Gate City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Gate City is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gate City include Scotch-Irish, English, Irish, and German.

The most common language spoken in Gate City is English.