About Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove is a tiny coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 928 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Grove is the 682nd largest community in California.

When you are in Pleasant Grove, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.8% of Pleasant Grove's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Pleasant Grove is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Grove who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.37%), sales jobs (12.79%), and farm management (8.95%).

Another important characteristic of Pleasant Grove is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

A relatively large number of people in Pleasant Grove telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.11% 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.

One of the nice things about Pleasant Grove is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Pleasant Grove is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pleasant Grove isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.74% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Pleasant Grove is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Pleasant Grove Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Pleasant Grove is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 11.53% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Grove in 2000 was $18,583, which is middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,332 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. Pleasant Grove also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.96% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Grove include German, Irish, English, Italian, Dutch, Scottish, and Portuguese.

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Grove is English. Some people also speak Spanish.