About Pleasant Hills

Pleasant Hills is a very small town located in the state of Maryland. With a population of 2,872 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Hills is the 213rd largest community in Maryland.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pleasant Hills is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Hills is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Hills who work in sales jobs (14.25%), office and administrative support jobs (12.36%), and management occupations (9.85%).

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

In addition, Pleasant Hills is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Pleasant Hills 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 Hills really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pleasant Hills 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.

One downside of living in Pleasant Hills is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pleasant Hills, the average commute to work is 31.59 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Pleasant Hills is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pleasant Hills 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. 97.43% 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.

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

Pleasant Hills Information and Demographics

The education level of Pleasant Hills citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 31.47% of adults in Pleasant Hills have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Hills in 2000 was $26,435, which is upper middle income relative to Maryland, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,740 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pleasant Hills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pleasant Hills is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Hills include German, Irish, English, Polish, Italian, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German.