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.

Unlike some towns, Pleasant Grove isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pleasant Grove are a mix of both white- and blue-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 very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Pleasant Grove really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pleasant Grove perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

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.