About Pleasant Valley

Pleasant Valley is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,233 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Valley is the 62nd largest community in West Virginia.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pleasant Valley is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Valley is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Valley who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.33%), sales jobs (8.25%), and healthcare (7.21%).

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

One of the benefits of Pleasant Valley is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.53 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Pleasant Valley is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Pleasant Valley, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.26% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small city, Pleasant Valley doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Pleasant Valley Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Pleasant Valley is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 14.96%: 20.57% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Valley in 2000 was $18,255, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $73,020 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Valley is English.