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Gypsum, CO

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Overview


Gypsum is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 8,954 people and just one neighborhood, Gypsum is the 63rd largest community in Colorado. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Gypsum, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Gypsum, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Gypsum’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Gypsum does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $99,726.00.

Housing costs in Gypsum are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Gypsum, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.16% of Gypsum’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gypsum is a town of professionals, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gypsum who work in management occupations (17.30%), teaching (9.69%), and office and administrative support (6.84%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.33% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The overall education level of Gypsum citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.79% of adults in Gypsum have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Gypsum in 2018 was $39,207, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $156,828 for a family of four. However, Gypsum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gypsum is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gypsum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Gypsum, accounting for 58.77% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gypsum residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gypsum include German, Scottish, European, Polish, and English.

Gypsum also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.48%.

The most common language spoken in Gypsum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gypsum, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gypsum are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 39.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 36.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 8.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 58.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Gypsum, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (52.2%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 24.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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