Pierre is a somewhat small city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 13,969 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Pierre is the seventh largest community in South Dakota.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pierre is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pierre is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pierre who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.01%), sales jobs (10.96%), and management occupations (8.92%).

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Pierre spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 10.11 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Pierre Information and Demographics

The education level of Pierre citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 34.97% of adults in Pierre have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pierre in 2000 was $20,462, which is wealthy relative to South Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $81,848 for a family of four.

The people who call Pierre home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pierre is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Pierre include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, Danish, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Pierre is English.