About Piper City

Piper City is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 1,054 people and just one neighborhood, Piper City is the 599th largest community in Illinois. Piper City has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Unlike some towns , Piper City isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Piper City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Piper City is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Piper City who work in office and administrative support jobs (10.39%), sales jobs (10.00%), and farm management (9.22%).

Another important characteristic of Piper City 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.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.80% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Piper City is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Piper City isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.88% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Piper City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Piper City Information and Demographics

The citizens of Piper City are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 12.03% of adults in Piper City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Piper City in 2000 was $20,161, which is upper middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,644 for a family of four.

The people who call Piper City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Piper City is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Piper City include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Piper City is English.