Pleasant Grove is a somewhat small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 9,446 people and three associated neighborhoods, Pleasant Grove is the 73rd largest community in Alabama.Pleasant Grove is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Grove is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Grove who work in office and administrative support (18.04%), healthcare (9.20%), and management occupations (6.71%). It is a fairly quiet city 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 Grove 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 Grove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pleasant Grove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pleasant Grove may be for you. Being a small city, Pleasant Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Pleasant Grove are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.59% of adults in Pleasant Grove having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Pleasant Grove in 2022 was $33,206, 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 $132,824 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pleasant Grove is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pleasant Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Grove residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Grove include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and African. The most common language spoken in Pleasant Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
