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Gainesville town, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Gainesville town is a Census town of 236 people across 1.72 square miles of land, in Sumter County. 40.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
47 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Gainesville through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 236 with a margin of error of plus or minus 133, which is 56.4 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Gainesville
What Gainesville is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.72 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land137 plus or minus 77
- County holding the largest share of its areaSumter County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gainesville
How many people live in Gainesville
- Population236 plus or minus 133
- Median age35.2 plus or minus 18.3
- Population under 1883 plus or minus 49
- Share under 1835.2 percent
- Population 65 and over21 plus or minus 22
- Share 65 and over8.9 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Households81 plus or minus 46
- Family households65 plus or minus 48
- Share of households that are families80.2 percent plus or minus 37.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gainesville
Income and work in Gainesville
- Per capita income$13,290 plus or minus $5,031
- Civilian labor force90 plus or minus 73
- Employed90 plus or minus 73
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over135 plus or minus 82
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher74.8 percent plus or minus 63.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.8 percent plus or minus 17.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gainesville
Housing in Gainesville
- Housing units124 plus or minus 49
- Occupied units81 plus or minus 46
- Vacant units43 plus or minus 25
- Vacancy rate34.7 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Owner occupied33 plus or minus 20
- Renter occupied48 plus or minus 45
- Ownership rate40.7 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Median gross rent, monthly$937
- Single family units89 plus or minus 45
- Share single family71.8 percent plus or minus 22.5
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes35 plus or minus 27
- Median year structure built1982
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Gainesville
How Gainesville gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute90 plus or minus 73
- Commuting under 15 minutes12 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting under 15 minutes13.3 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Commuting 30 minutes or more60 plus or minus 48
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more66.7 percent plus or minus 76.3
- Drove alone74.4 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Carpooled18.9 percent plus or minus 19.0
- Public transport6.7 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Sumter County, not Gainesville
Sumter County context, not Gainesville figures
These are Sumter County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Gainesville measurements.
- Establishments in Sumter County204
- Employment at those establishments, Sumter County2,597
- Covered employment, Sumter County2,849
- Average annual pay, Sumter County$47,332
- Average weekly wage, Sumter County$910
- Housing units permitted, Sumter County5
- Of those, single family, Sumter County5
- County product, 2024, Sumter County$451,395,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sumter County8.1 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sumter County$44,038
Every figure in this section is published for Sumter County as a whole and is not a measurement of Gainesville. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Gainesville questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Gainesville, Alabama?
236, in 81 households. Gainesville town covers 1.72 square miles of land, which is 137 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Gainesville in?
Sumter County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Gainesville figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sumter County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Gainesville.
Is zoning published for Gainesville?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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