Pickerington is a medium-sized town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 28,277 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Pickerington is the 50th largest community in Ohio.

Pickerington is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.89% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pickerington is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pickerington who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.23%), management occupations (15.17%), and sales jobs (14.25%).

Also of interest is that Pickerington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Pickerington is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Pickerington is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Pickerington really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pickerington perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Residents of Pickerington by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 99% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Pickerington may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

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

Pickerington Information and Demographics

The population of Pickerington is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 38.84% of adults in Pickerington have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pickerington in 2000 was $27,372, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,488 for a family of four. However, Pickerington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pickerington home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pickerington is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pickerington include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Pickerington is English.