Photo: Public domain · Public domainPierceton has 3.3 jobs for every working resident: 1,278 people commute in to work
Employers in Pierceton report 1,296 jobs; 394 of its residents have a job. Only 5% work in Pierceton; the top destination outside it is Warsaw (32%, 8 miles). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, next to 11% for Indiana as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Pierceton: the gist
Pierceton has far more jobs than workers
Pierceton has 1,296 jobs, 3.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,800 people are in town, 97% more than the 930 who live here. Day and night ↓
Pierceton makes and builds things
74% of the jobs based in Pierceton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Pierceton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 37%. The jobs ↓
One in three of Pierceton works in Warsaw
125 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Warsaw, 8.5 miles away. That’s 6 times as many as work in Pierceton itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 394 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Pierceton
On a workday 376 residents head out to work and 18 work right here.
About 1,800 people are in Pierceton on a workday afternoon, 97% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Factories, building and farms: 74% of the jobs in Pierceton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pierceton, 2013 → 2023: 1,084 → 1,296. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pierceton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Pierceton’s workers come from
Where Pierceton clocks in
32% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Pierceton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pierceton workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 673 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Pierceton
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Pierceton: questions
What is the median household income in Pierceton?
$80,625 (±$31,934) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pierceton?
10.9%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pierceton?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pierceton work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warsaw (32%, 8 mi), Elkhart (5%, 37 mi), Fort Wayne (4%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pierceton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pierceton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pierceton
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.