Pleasant Grove is a somewhat small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 10,353 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Pleasant Grove is the 63rd largest community in Alabama.

Pleasant Grove is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Grove is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Grove who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.93%), sales jobs (9.81%), and management occupations (8.56%).

Also of interest is that Pleasant Grove has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Pleasant Grove is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Pleasant Grove a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Pleasant Grove has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Pleasant Grove's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Pleasant Grove is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Pleasant Grove, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 99.37% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Pleasant Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Pleasant Grove Information and Demographics

The population of Pleasant Grove overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Pleasant Grove, 17.48% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Grove in 2000 was $20,833, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,332 for a family of four.

Pleasant Grove is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pleasant Grove home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pleasant Grove is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Grove include English, Irish, German, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Grove is English.