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Pierce Township is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades B+ overall, 381st among Ohio's 987 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $90K. It also does better than most on safety: it reports less crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns. A typical home there costs about $277K, 3.4 years of the Cincinnati metro’s $81K median household income. Pierce Township’s average trip to work is 31 minutes, above both the Ohio town median (24 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Pierce Township has 2 places on the National Register of Historic Places, among them Gaskins-Malany House and Roas-Ilhardt Farm and Winery.
Where Pierce Township beats most towns.
Where Pierce Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Ohio), ordered by how far Pierce Township is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2004 and 7 maps from 1898 on.
2 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pierce Township. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi Theme parkKings Island3.5M visitors a year
Big draw33 mi Theme parkArk Encounter
14 mi Stadium & arenaPaycor Stadium
14 mi Stadium & arenaGreat American Ball Park
15 mi Stadium & arenaNippert Stadium
15 mi Stadium & arenaTQL StadiumKings Island: Eli Duke from Portland, OR, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ark Encounter: OlinEJ, CC0 · Paycor Stadium: JonRidinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Great American Ball Park: Eric Kilby profile at Flickr website, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Nippert Stadium: Ben Levin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TQL Stadium: Cornfield948, CC BY-SA 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pierce Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Aug 3, 2026.
Ordered by what stands out in Pierce Township.
Pierce Township sends most of its workers to Cincinnati and beyond and sees little violent crime.
15 miles of trail in 10 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Woodland Mound, at 383 acres. Pierce Township’s trail density is 0.6 miles per square mile.
| Pierce Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.2% | 3.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pierce Preserve | 2.8 mi | 147 |
| 2. Locust Corner Park | 2.4 mi | 76 |
| 3. Locust Corner Nature Area | 1.5 mi | 65 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Its public schools are run by the West Clermont Local school district. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merwin Elementary SchoolLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 602 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within OH on state tests and graduation
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 87% of U.S. communities. Since 2015, 8 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Pierce Township.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Pierce Township has 1,742 jobs for its 7,422 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 30.6 minutes, against 23.4 across Ohio.
Most working residents leave Pierce Township for work: only 3% work in town. Since 2013, Pierce Township has lost 197 jobs, to 1,742 in 2023. 15% of workers work from home in Pierce Township.
| Pierce Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 15% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.6% | 6.9% | 8% |
| Median household income | $90,000 | $75,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.3% | 9.1% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Violent crime is rare: 8 reported in 2025, 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
The violent crime rate in Pierce Township is 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Pierce Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.5 per 1,000 residents | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 8.3 per 1,000 residents | 9.4 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Pierce Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 86°, January nights drop to 23° and about 23 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
People 65 and older are 22% of residents (18% statewide). 35% of Pierce Township adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Pierce Township has grown 4.4% since 2020, to 15,754 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Pierce Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 24% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 22% | 20% | 18% |
49% women, 51% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.2 points. Across Ohio, 50.7% of residents are women. Median age: women 41.1, men 40.3.
| Pierce Township | OH | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.5% | 11.7% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9% | 10.3% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6.8% | 8.9% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.1% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13% | 12.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.3% | 12% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.9% | 13.2% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 14.5% | 10.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.8% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.6% | 8.2% | 10.4% |
| High school | 27.2% | 32.1% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.3% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.7% | 9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21% | 19.3% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.2% | 12.2% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Pierce Township beats the Ohio average on 4 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0.
| Pierce Township | Ohio towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 26% | 23% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 38% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Pierce Township | OH |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 6.9% | 8.3% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.8% | 14.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
7 within 15 miles of the center of Pierce Township
About 3 of every 100 Pierce Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Ohio.
2 places in Pierce Township on the National Register of Historic Places.
Township in Ohio, US
Pierce Township is one of the fourteen townships of Clermont County, Ohio, United States. The population was 15,096 at the 2020 census.
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8 towns share a border with Pierce Township.
Anderson Township next door grades higher for schools (A to Pierce Township’s B−) and lower for cost of living (C− to B−).
| Town | OH rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierce Township | #381 | B+ | B− | B+ | B− | B− |
| Ohio Township | #647 | B− | B+ | — | B+ | C |
| New Richmond | #363 | B+ | B+ | A | B+ | C− |
| Union Township | #513 | B | C+ | — | B− | B |
| Withamsville | #683 | C+ | B− | — | B− | C+ |
| Batavia Township | #615 | B− | B | — | B− | C+ |
| Anderson Township | #94 | A | C− | — | A | A− |
| Amelia | #370 | B+ | B | — | B− | B− |
Ohio Township, Union Township, Withamsville, Batavia Township, Anderson Township and Amelia report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Pierce Township with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Pierce Township grades B+ overall, better than 68% of U.S. towns and #381 of 987 in Ohio. It grades B− for health, B+ for safety and B− for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
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