Pilot Point is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 6,771 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pilot Point is the 419th largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Pilot Point, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Pilot Point, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Pilot Point’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Pilot Point does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $97,933.00.
Also of interest is that Pilot Point has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 20.07% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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 Pilot Point is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pilot Point, the average commute to work is 31.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Pilot Point does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Pilot Point citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.28% of adults in Pilot Point have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pilot Point in 2022 was $37,429, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,716 for a family of four. However, Pilot Point contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pilot Point is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pilot Point home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pilot Point residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pilot Point also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.02% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pilot Point include Irish, English, German, Italian, and French.
Pilot Point also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.32%.
The most common language spoken in Pilot Point is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.