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Ault - Pierce, CO

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Overview


Ault - Pierce is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 6,692 people and just one neighborhood, Ault - Pierce is the 83rd largest community in Colorado.

Housing costs in Ault - Pierce are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.

Occupations and Workforce

Ault - Pierce is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ault - Pierce is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ault - Pierce who work in management occupations (13.50%), sales jobs (10.31%), and office and administrative support (8.20%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.89% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Ault - Pierce is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ault - Pierce, the average commute to work is 30.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Ault - Pierce is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.14% of adults in Ault - Pierce have a college degree.

The per capita income in Ault - Pierce in 2018 was $41,245, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,980 for a family of four. However, Ault - Pierce contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ault - Pierce is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ault - Pierce home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ault - Pierce residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ault - Pierce also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.33% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ault - Pierce include German, Irish, English, European, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Ault - Pierce is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ault - Pierce, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

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 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 Ault - Pierce are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 62.3% of America'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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Ault - Pierce, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.1%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.

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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (74.5%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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