Pleasant Hill is a somewhat small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 8,679 people and two associated neighborhoods, Pleasant Hill is the 90th largest community in Missouri. Much of the housing stock in Pleasant Hill was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Pleasant Hill economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Pleasant Hill, where the median household income is $88,408.00.

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.

One downside of living in Pleasant Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.44 minutes every day commuting to work.

Pleasant Hill is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The percentage of people in Pleasant Hill who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.56% of adults in Pleasant Hill have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pleasant Hill in 2022 was $37,105, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,420 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Pleasant Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Hill include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Pleasant Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.