Pleasant Hill is a somewhat small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 9,947 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Pleasant Hill is the 83rd largest community in Missouri.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pleasant Hill is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Hill is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Hill who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.78%), sales jobs (7.79%), and management occupations (7.20%).

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

In Pleasant Hill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.98 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Pleasant Hill is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pleasant Hill 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. 97.41% 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 Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Pleasant Hill Information and Demographics

The education level of Pleasant Hill citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 19.18% of adults in Pleasant Hill have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Hill in 2000 was $23,383, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,532 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hill is English.