Pleasantville is a somewhat small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 19,096 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Pleasantville is the 103rd largest community in New Jersey.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pleasantville is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasantville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasantville who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.35%), sales jobs (11.56%), and food service (11.39%).

One of the nice things about Pleasantville is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city 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.

In Pleasantville, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day even though Pleasantville is a relatively small city. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

Pleasantville Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Pleasantville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 10.19% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pleasantville in 2000 was $17,668, which is low income relative to New Jersey, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,672 for a family of four.

Pleasantville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pleasantville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pleasantville is African-American, followed by White. Pleasantville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.25% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Pleasantville include German, Haitian, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Pleasantville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French Creole.