Pinehurst is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,195 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pinehurst is the 369th largest community in Texas.Pinehurst is a blue-collar town, with 38.11% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pinehurst is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinehurst who work in maintenance occupations (9.69%), food service (9.37%), and sales jobs (8.92%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.24% 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. One downside of living in Pinehurst is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pinehurst, the average commute to work is 35.81 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Pinehurst 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.The education level of Pinehurst citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.56% of adults in Pinehurst have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Pinehurst in 2022 was $31,044, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,176 for a family of four. However, Pinehurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pinehurst is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pinehurst home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinehurst residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Pinehurst also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.52% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pinehurst include German, English, Irish, Hungarian, and Czech. Pinehurst also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.92%. The most common language spoken in Pinehurst is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
