In addition, Mount Pleasant is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Mount Pleasant culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Mount Pleasant really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Mount Pleasant every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Mount Pleasant. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Mount Pleasant benefits directly from this.
Mount Pleasant, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the city.
One of the benefits of Mount Pleasant is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.36 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.
The citizens of Mount Pleasant are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.25% of adults in Mount Pleasant have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Mount Pleasant in 2018 was $23,962, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,848 for a family of four. However, Mount Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Pleasant also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Mount Pleasant is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Pleasant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Pleasant residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Pleasant include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mount Pleasant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
