About Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 1,249 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Pleasant is the 360th largest community in North Carolina.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mount Pleasant is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Pleasant is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Pleasant who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.28%), management occupations (8.89%), and teaching (8.24%).

Mount Pleasant 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.

Mount Pleasant Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Mount Pleasant is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 20.94% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mount Pleasant in 2000 was $21,556, which is upper middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,224 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Mount Pleasant is English.