Gainesville, FL (Florida) Houses and Residents

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(Urban population: 94,451, Rural population: 1,154 (all nonfarm))

Gainesville, Florida Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 40,111 (37,278 occupied: 17,791 owner occupied, 19,487 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	52%
State:	30%

Housing density: 832 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $289,425.

Median contract rent in 2007: $603 (lower quartile is $458, upper quartile is $829)

Housing units in Gainesville with a mortgage: 10,886 (1,045 second mortgage, 822 home equity loan, 50 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,871

Gainesville,FL index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $169,800 (it was $83,700 in 2000)

Gainesville:	$169,800
Florida:	$230,400

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $124,800 - $231,400

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $199,513
Here: $199,513
State: $334,342

Townhouses or other attached units: $187,091
Here: $187,091
State: $258,333

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $143,295
Here: $143,295
State: $240,504

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $182,850
Here: $182,850
State: $281,565

Mobile homes: $34,036
Here: $34,036
State: $43,568

Median year house/condo built: 1975

Median year apartment built: 1975

Household type by relationship

Households: 83,941

In family households: 55,270 (11,475 male householders, 7,051 female householders)
12,467 spouses, 18,487 children (17,114 natural, 566 adopted, 807 stepchildren), 1,387 grandchildren, 1,086 brothers or sisters, 512 parents, 1,027 other relatives, 1,778 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 28,671 (9,046 male householders (5,450 living alone)), 9,789 female householders (6,767 living alone)), 9,836 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 11,664 (2,074 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 8,472 2-persons, 4,676 3-persons, 3,259 4-persons, 1,411 5-persons, 487 6-persons, 221 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 12,217 1-person, 4,300 2-persons, 1,571 3-persons, 635 4-persons, 87 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons.

8,571 married couples with children.
6,278 single-parent households (733 men, 5,545 women).

86.3% of residents of Gainesville speak English at home.
6.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
3.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (83% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).

Foreign born population: 8,320 (8.7%)
(34.0% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.1
State:	5.6

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.8
State:	3.8

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Gainesville, Florida:
	1 room: 16 2 rooms: 245 3 rooms: 901 4 rooms: 1,389 5 rooms: 3,520 6 rooms: 4,878 7 rooms: 3,380 8 rooms: 2,078 9 or more rooms: 1,384

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Gainesville, Florida:
	1 room: 1,164 2 rooms: 2,940 3 rooms: 3,993 4 rooms: 4,830 5 rooms: 3,446 6 rooms: 2,023 7 rooms: 717 8 rooms: 268 9 or more rooms: 106

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 638
1995 to 1998: 2,439
1990 to 1994: 2,567
1980 to 1989: 7,065
1970 to 1979: 11,941
1960 to 1969: 7,041
1950 to 1959: 4,319
1940 to 1949: 2,004
1939 or earlier: 2,097

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Gainesville:
	no bedroom: 49 1 bedroom: 646 2 bedrooms: 3,327 3 bedrooms: 9,771 4 bedrooms: 3,533 5 or more bedrooms: 465

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Gainesville:
	no bedroom: 1,284 1 bedroom: 6,001 2 bedrooms: 7,214 3 bedrooms: 3,837 4 bedrooms: 1,014 5 or more bedrooms: 137

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Gainesville in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 745 1 vehicle: 6,686 2 vehicles: 7,894 3 vehicles: 2,002 4 vehicles: 343 5 or more vehicles: 121

Cars and other vehicles available in Gainesville in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 2,725 1 vehicle: 9,864 2 vehicles: 4,603 3 vehicles: 1,616 4 vehicles: 490 5 or more vehicles: 189

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Gainesville, FL:

Less than $10,000: 86
$10,000 to $14,999: 43
$15,000 to $19,999: 43
$20,000 to $24,999: 85
$25,000 to $29,999: 87
$30,000 to $34,999: 73
$35,000 to $39,999: 72
$40,000 to $49,999: 139
$50,000 to $59,999: 147
$60,000 to $69,999: 268
$70,000 to $79,999: 543
$80,000 to $89,999: 548
$90,000 to $99,999: 545
$100,000 to $124,999: 1972
$125,000 to $149,999: 2591
$150,000 to $174,999: 2507
$175,000 to $199,999: 1932
$200,000 to $249,999: 2629
$250,000 to $299,999: 1753
$300,000 to $399,999: 1443
$400,000 to $499,999: 471
$500,000 to $749,999: 371
$750,000 to $999,999: 88
$1,000,000 or more: 64

Gainesville rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Gainesville:

Less than $100: 600 people
$100 to $149: 425
$150 to $199: 635
$200 to $249: 391
$250 to $299: 517
$300 to $349: 833
$350 to $399: 1,269
$400 to $449: 1,714
$450 to $499: 2,249
$500 to $549: 2,178
$550 to $599: 1,898
$600 to $649: 2,014
$650 to $699: 1,456
$700 to $749: 1,341
$750 to $799: 1,269
$800 to $899: 1,577
$900 to $999: 1,484
$1,000 to $1,249: 2,176
$1,250 to $1,499: 934
$1,500 to $1,999: 540
$2,000 or more: 208
No cash rent: 513

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 3,078 1990 to 1994: 1,468 1985 to 1989: 1,034 1980 to 1984: 970 1975 to 1979: 596 1970 to 1974: 270 1970 to 1974: 214 1965 to 1969: 690

Gainesville, FL Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 94.1%
Number of people working at home: 1,329 (3.1% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 1368
5 to 9 minutes: 6399
10 to 14 minutes: 10243
15 to 19 minutes: 10439
20 to 24 minutes: 6443
25 to 29 minutes: 1149
30 to 34 minutes: 2543
35 to 39 minutes: 324
40 to 44 minutes: 356
45 to 59 minutes: 1090
60 to 89 minutes: 825
90 or more minutes: 552

Gainesville mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 30,059 (70%)
Carpooled: 5,256 (12%)
Bus or trolley bus: 1,351 (3%)
Railroad: 6 (0%)
Ferryboat: 16 (0%)
Taxi: 13 (0%)
Motorcycle: 144 (0%)
Bicycle: 2,261 (5%)
Walked: 2,430 (6%)
Other means: 195 (0%)
Worked at home: 1,329 (3%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 7482
$10,000 to $14,999: 3309
$15,000 to $19,999: 3151
$20,000 to $24,999: 2997
$25,000 to $29,999: 2584
$30,000 to $34,999: 2320
$35,000 to $39,999: 1698
$40,000 to $44,999: 1649
$45,000 to $49,999: 1571
$50,000 to $59,999: 2584
$60,000 to $74,999: 2579
$75,000 to $99,999: 2575
$100,000 to $124,999: 1208
$125,000 to $149,999: 653
$150,000 to $199,999: 464
$200,000 or more: 537

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 27539

German: 7832

English: 6723

Irish: 6395

United States or American: 5380

Italian: 3784

French (except Basque): 1837

Scotch-Irish: 1621

Subsaharan African:: 1613

Polish: 1545

Scottish: 1462

African: 1241

European: 987

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 927

Russian: 913

Swedish: 792

British: 664

French Canadian: 613

Dutch: 599

Norwegian: 512

Arab:: 419

Jamaican: 402

Greek: 377

Welsh: 333

Ukrainian: 247

Hungarian: 231

Haitian: 223

Iranian: 216

Danish: 178

Brazilian: 172

Canadian: 167

Eastern European: 161

Lebanese: 156

Lithuanian: 156

Czech: 153

Finnish: 153

Swiss: 149

Northern European: 137

Ethiopian: 135

Turkish: 131

Portuguese: 117

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 110

Austrian: 103

Bulgarian: 80

Romanian: 80

Israeli: 75

Nigerian: 74

Czechoslovakian: 72

South African: 72

Other Arab: 68

Syrian: 55

Belgian: 54

Bahamian: 53

West Indian: 53

Egyptian: 53

Slavic: 49

Palestinian: 48

Yugoslavian: 48

Slovak: 46

Australian: 42

Serbian: 41

Scandinavian: 41

Slovene: 38

Acadian/Cajun: 37

Zimbabwean: 33

Celtic: 30

Kenyan: 30

Alsatian: 29

Armenian: 29

British West Indian: 28

Arab/Arabic: 26

Albanian: 26

Other Subsaharan African: 21

Belizean: 20

Croatian: 17

Maltese: 14

Guyanese: 13

Moroccan: 13

Basque: 11

Bermudan: 11

Dutch West Indian: 10

Other West Indian: 9

Latvian: 9

Barbadian: 8

New Zealander: 7

Ghanian: 7

Macedonian: 7

Estonian: 7

Icelander: 6

Luxemburger: 5

German Russian: 5

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
India (8%)
Korea (5%)
United Kingdom (4%)
Canada (4%)
Taiwan (3%)
Vietnam (3%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 44654
Northeast: 12783
Midwest: 10000
South: 13902
West: 3382

38% of Gainesville residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Florida.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 479
Nursery to 4th grade: 73
5th and 6th grade: 280
7th and 8th grade: 328
9th grade: 327
10th grade: 410
11th grade: 517
12th grade, no diploma: 746
High school graduate (or equivalency): 3,883
Less than 1 year of college: 1,053
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 2,997
Associate degree: 2,111
Bachelor's degree: 4,930
Master's degree: 2,894
Professional school degree: 1,329
Doctorate degree: 2,017

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 274
Nursery to 4th grade: 154
5th and 6th grade: 174
7th and 8th grade: 398
9th grade: 305
10th grade: 528
11th grade: 620
12th grade, no diploma: 570
High school graduate (or equivalency): 4,897
Less than 1 year of college: 1,656
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 3,495
Associate degree: 2,646
Bachelor's degree: 5,477
Master's degree: 3,405
Professional school degree: 829
Doctorate degree: 772

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 7.8%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 7.5%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 18.7%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 14.7%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 7.0%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 5.3%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 7.1%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 10.8%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 14.7%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 20.6%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 15.6%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 5.5%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 19.1%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 11.3%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $27,815
Black householders: $22,530
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $68,073
Asian householders: $35,060
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $90,530
Some other race householders: $31,677
Two or more races householders: $39,286
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $33,591

Gainesville household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Gainesville household income for Black householders

Gainesville household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Gainesville household income for Asian householders

Gainesville household income for Some other race householders

Gainesville household income for Two or more races householders

Gainesville household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Gainesville marital status for males

Gainesville marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $190,898
Black or African American householders: $112,997
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $168,988
Asian householders: $201,244
Some other race householders: $158,845
Two or more races householders: $170,611
Hispanic or Latino householders: $169,191

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 20,360
One, attached: 1,722
Two: 1,980
3 or 4: 2,779
5 to 9: 3,871
10 to 19: 3,288
20 to 49: 2,000
50 or more: 2,885
Mobile homes: 1,207
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 19

Median worth of mobile homes: $58,623

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 1%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Gainesville:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (54%) Electricity (40%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Electricity (75%) Utility gas (21%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%) Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 859

Here:	10.7%
Florida:	11.7%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 181

Here:	4.8%
Florida:	9.7%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 703

Here:	2.9%
Florida:	21.0%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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