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.Unlike some towns, Pleasant Garden isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pleasant Garden are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Garden is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Garden who work in healthcare (15.90%), management occupations (8.71%), and teaching (8.35%). A relatively large number of people in Pleasant Garden telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.79% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Pleasant Garden has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pleasant Garden a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Pleasant Garden does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.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.
