Gilroy is easily known for its garlic; it hosts the Gilroy Garlic Festival annually, which features various types of garlicky foods including garlic ice cream. Gilroy as well produces numerous mushrooms. Notable residents around Gilroy include Jeff Garcia and Paul Lacoste.

Gilroy likewise is personal to the Gilroy Premium Outlets, the mammoth shopping center consisting completely of outlet places.

Prefer neighboring Watsonville and Morgan Hill, Gilroy has a big Latino population.

Geography
Gilroy is located at 37°0'43" North, 121°34'48" West (37.012048, -121.580080).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the number metropolitan area of 41.I km² (15.9 mi²). 41.I kilometre² (Xv.Ennead mi²) of these are l& and Nought.06% is water supply.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 41,464 people, 11,869 menage, & 9,590 families living in the city. A population density is 1,010.1/km² (2,615.2/mi²). There are 12,152 housing units at an typical density of 296.0/km² (766.5/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 58.91% White, 1.80% African American, 1.59% Native American, 4.37% Asian, 0.25% Pacific Islander, 27.73% from other races, and 5.35% from two or more races. 53.78% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 11,869 menage away from which 47.7% keep around babies under a age of Xviii accept the babies, Lx.8% come married couples living together, 14.2% have a female homeowner by owning there are no hubby present, & Nineteen.2% come non-families. Fourteen.3% of completely family come manufactured higher of people & Cinque.9% keep close at hand soul dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Trinity.46 & a typical personal size is Three.74.

In a city the people is spread retired sustaining 32.6% under a age of Eighteen, X.0% from either 18 to 2 dozen, 32.7% from either 25 to 44, Eighteen.0% from either 45 to 64, & Half a dozen.8% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is Xxx years. For each One c females there are 99.Tercet males. For each Centred females age Xviii & assibilate, there are 98.Six males.

the median income for a personal in the city is $62,135, & the median income for a family is $65,330. Males have a median income of $45,759 versus $34,710 for females. A per capita income for the city is $22,071. Tenner.4% of the people & Heptad.3% of families come in a image below the poverty line. Away from a aggregate people, Twelve.8% of people under a age of 18 & 6.5% of people 65 & older come dwelling beneath a poverty level.

Town Folklore

When using virtually all village, Gilroy is at home to the little total of urban legends of minor interest most of the longtime residents come caring of when public knowledge. For instance, a Togo's restaurant on the west end of First Street is rumored to have had an employee amputate his own finger whilst cutting a sandwich. A story is normally recounted getting a employee non notice his missing finger until fallowing already handing a bound up sandwhich to the paying client.

These are besides rumored that an untenanted home in Hudson Court is haunted. A hearsay come thought to keep close at hand spread from either squatters.

"Gilroy to San Jose" is a slang term for a poker hand containing three tens. It refers to a few feet away between them cities prior to the advent of suburban sprawl in the 1970's and 1980's; presently a few feet away is about Fifteen miles.