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Pleasant Garden, NC
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Living in Pleasant Garden



Pleasant Garden is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 5,020 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pleasant Garden is the 157th largest community in North Carolina.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.79% 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.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pleasant Garden has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pleasant Garden has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pleasant Garden than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pleasant Garden may be for you.

Pleasant Garden 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 percentage of people in Pleasant Garden who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.58% of adults in Pleasant Garden have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Garden in 2022 was $34,270, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,080 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Garden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pleasant Garden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pleasant Garden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Garden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Garden include German, Irish, English, European, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Garden is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Spanish.

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