Pierson is a very small town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 1,554 people and just one neighborhood, Pierson is the 403rd largest community in Florida.
Pierson is a blue-collar town, with 45.79% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pierson is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Pierson who work in farm management occupations (17.95%), management occupations (9.89%), and maintenance occupations (8.24%).
Another important characteristic of Pierson is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
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.
Pierson is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Pierson with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.78% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pierson in 2022 was $23,328, which is low income relative to Florida and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,312 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 62.54% 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: 44.82%.
The most common language spoken in Pierson is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 29.2% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of America.
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, 56.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 56.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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 44.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 28.4% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.9%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 56.7% of households. Some people also speak English (42.0%).
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 (56.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.1%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.1%), among others. In addition, 27.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (33.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (58.6%) 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 (29.2%) and 5.4% 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.