Pinson is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,997 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Pinson is the 142nd largest community in Alabama.

Pinson is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pinson is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinson who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.55%), sales jobs (13.79%), and food service (6.09%).

Pinson is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pinson 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. 97.84% 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.

Pinson is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Pinson Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Pinson with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 10.54% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pinson in 2000 was $17,704, which is upper middle income relative to Alabama, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,816 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Pinson is English. Some people also speak Spanish.