Mount Pleasant is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,824 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mount Pleasant is the 121st largest community in Tennessee.Mount Pleasant is a blue-collar town, with 36.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mount Pleasant is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Pleasant who work in sales jobs (13.92%), office and administrative support (12.05%), and management occupations (10.55%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mount Pleasant has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mount Pleasant has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Pleasant than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Pleasant may be for you. Mount Pleasant 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 adults in Mount Pleasant with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.35% of adults in Mount Pleasant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Mount Pleasant in 2022 was $28,512, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,048 for a family of four. However, Mount Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Pleasant is an extremely 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 African, German, Irish, English, and French. The most common language spoken in Mount Pleasant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
