Pleasant Hill is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 8,715 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pleasant Hill is the 90th largest community in Missouri. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Pleasant Hill, 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 Pleasant Hill, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Pleasant Hill’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Pleasant Hill does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $88,408.00.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pleasant Hill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Hill is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Hill who work in office and administrative support (10.46%), teaching (10.02%), and sales jobs (9.59%). Also of interest is that Pleasant Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One downside of living in Pleasant Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pleasant Hill, the average commute to work is 32.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small city, Pleasant Hill doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of people in Pleasant Hill who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.56% of adults in Pleasant Hill have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Pleasant Hill in 2022 was $37,105, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,420 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Pleasant Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Hill include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
