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Pierson, FL

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Overview


Pierson is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,558 people and just one neighborhood, Pierson is the 403rd largest community in Florida.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pierson is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.81% of the Pierson workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pierson is a town of service providers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pierson who work in farm management occupations (19.11%), management occupations (9.90%), and teaching (8.53%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Pierson work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

Pierson’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pierson has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pierson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pierson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pierson may be for you.

As is often the case in a small town, Pierson doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Pierson is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.08% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pierson in 2022 was $22,487, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,948 for a family of four. However, Pierson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pierson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pierson 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 Pierson, accounting for 62.09% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Pierson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pierson include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Polish.

Pierson also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 41.96%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 13.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (32.6%) than in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 62.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 58.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Pierson are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.7% 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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.0%), and 13.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 58.9% of households. Some people also speak English (38.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Pierson, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (62.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.2%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 28.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (55.8%) 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 (32.6%) and 5.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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