Senour, Frank, Round Barn · Photo: Christina Blust · CC BY-SA 2.0Pierson Township has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
170 jobs are based in Pierson Township for 490 working residents. Pierson Township grades C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Indiana 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Pierson Township
42% of Pierson Township works in Terre Haute
208 working residents, 42%, have their main job in Terre Haute, 12 miles away. That’s 42 times as many as work in Pierson Township itself. The commute map ↓
Few Pierson Township workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 11% across Indiana. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 490 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Pierson Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On family income, poverty and job access, Pierson Township is better than 22% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Pierson Township’s grade.
14% of Pierson Township’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 14.6%, against 31.0% for all residents. Unemployment (2.1%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($81,983), since student households pull the household median down ($71,875).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Pierson Township could be anywhere from D− to A−.
42% of working residents work in Terre Haute
Where Pierson Township clocks in
42% of workers
6% 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.
Getting to work from Pierson Township takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pierson Township workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 938 commuters (the 0% 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.
Who works in Pierson Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 486 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 166 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Pierson Township on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer 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.
Pierson Township makes things: 31% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pierson Township, 2013 → 2023: 109 → 170. 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 Pierson Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Pierson Township commutes
About 21% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Pierson Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pierson Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pierson Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 938 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.5% of Pierson Township households have no vehicle (Indiana 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pierson Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pierson Township is 3,209th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 85 | Galena IN | 1,549 | $128K | 1.8% | 4.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Foxcliff Estates IN | 1,674 | $142K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,207 | Wisner NE | 1,224 | $62K | 10.3% | 0.7% | 13% | C− |
| 3,208 | Convoy OH | 1,006 | $61K | 17.2% | 4.0% | 2% | C− |
| 3,209 | Pierson Township IN | 1,229 | $72K | 31.0% | 2.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,210 | Jackson Township OH | 1,225 | $52K | 7.9% | 12.3% | 1% | C− |
| 3,211 | Morgantown IN | 1,007 | $54K | 15.0% | 16.0% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Pierson Township, the top three, the last and three more from Indiana.
The towns around Pierson Township
The biggest share goes to Linton Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pierson Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierson Township | – | C− | D− | 26 min | $71,875 |
| Linton Township | 6% | B | D | 24 min | $98,611 |
| Riley Township | under 1% | B− | D | 24 min | $97,300 |
| Jackson Township | under 1% | D | D | 39 min | $50,288 |
| Perry Township | under 1% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Lewis Township | under 1% | B− | D− | 31 min | $81,964 |
Same-state neighbors only. Perry Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pierson Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- Students. 14% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Pierson Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pierson Township?
$71,875 (±$29,748) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,957 across Indiana and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pierson Township?
31.0% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 14.6%. Indiana: 12.3%.
How long is the commute from Pierson Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Indiana and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pierson Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Terre Haute (42%, 12 mi), Honey Creek Township (9%, 9 mi), Indianapolis (6%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pierson Township walkable?
Pierson Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pierson Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pierson Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pierson Township
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.