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SheetAL-PLEASANT-GROVE-AL · Pleasant Grove, AL 9,502 pop · income 47th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Pleasant Grove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pleasant Grove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Coamo zona ur… · lowest
15,959
Coamo zona ur… · lowest
15,959 median HH income
15.4% of the leader · rank #1
Kongiganak · near
68,333
Kongiganak · near
68,333 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #2
Secretary · near
68,333
Secretary · near
68,333 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #3
Hanover · near
68,333
Hanover · near
68,333 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #4
Pleasant Grove · this city
68,344
Pleasant Grove · this city
68,344 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #5
Town 'n' Coun… · near
68,350
Town 'n' Coun… · near
68,350 median HH income
65.9% of the leader · rank #6
Amityville · highest
103,684
Amityville · highest
103,684 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Pleasant Grove on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 9,502.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pleasant Grove - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Pleasant Grove lands in the 47th percentile for household income and the 63rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
47th
percentile, household income
39th
percentile, home value
1st
percentile, median rent
63rd
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Pleasant Grove, AL
Alabama's Pleasant Grove is a small town, with 9,502 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Pleasant Grove brings in $68,344 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.0%. Home values in Pleasant Grove run a median of $189,100, and the median resident age is 44.3 years. About 24.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 6 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 79% from five years earlier. Pleasant Grove reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1017.0 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Alabama run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Alabama at 88.8 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $936 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alabama run around $245, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 61.5 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pleasant Grove's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pleasant Grove, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pleasant Grove?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1017.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 55% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pleasant Grove?
Within Alabama, the closest population matches are Southside (9,407 residents, $73,695 income); Sheffield (9,334 residents, $42,097 income); Fultondale (9,753 residents, $69,127 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Clarksville, AR (9,500 residents); Coamo zona urbana, PR (9,504 residents); Tomah, WI (9,505 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What does the education layer cover for Pleasant Grove?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 24.3% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
How far does income reach against housing in Pleasant Grove?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Pleasant Grove?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
5.3%
Drive alone
80.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,860 workers age 16+.
Is Pleasant Grove growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -193 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-2.0%
2025 estimate
9,346
2020 estimate
9,539
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 15.0% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
88.8 (US=100)
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, Alabama average
C-
City profile score · Pleasant Grove, AL
53/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
88.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime C
161 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income D
$68,344
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Pleasant Grove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 90/100 (A+) · 88.8 index
Violent crime: 56/100 (C) · 161 /100k
Household income: 47/100 (D) · $68,344
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.3%
Poverty rate: 23/100 (F) · 15.0%
Where Pleasant Grove sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pleasant Grove's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Pleasant Grove highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Pleasant Grove, AL (this city): home $189,100, crime 1,017/100k
Clarksville, AR : home $159,700, crime 2,500/100k
Tomah, WI : home $162,900, crime 2,050/100k
Bluefield, WV : home $101,000, crime 1,517/100k
Southside, AL : home $202,900, crime 425/100k
Sheffield, AL : home $127,100, crime 2,414/100k
Fultondale, AL : home $181,900, crime 3,011/100k
Tuscumbia, AL : home $166,400, crime 510/100k
How does Pleasant Grove compare to other US cities?
Where Pleasant Grove sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income47% higher than other cities
Home value39% pricier than other cities
Median rent1% pricier than other cities
Safety63% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Alabama alone, Pleasant Grove ranks #60 of 222 Alabama cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Pleasant Grove against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Alabama only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Alabama-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Pleasant Grove near the bottom of Alabama's cities
Among the 556 Alabama cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pleasant Grove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pleasant Grove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#138 of 530
74th percentile in Alabama
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 556
0th percentile in Alabama
Median Home Value
#142 of 517
73rd percentile in Alabama
Poverty Rate
#210 of 556
62nd percentile in Alabama
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#134 of 556
76th percentile in Alabama
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Alabama only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
47th percentile nationally for median household income · 63rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pleasant Grove's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pleasant Grove's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Pleasant Grove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$189,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 61% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Pleasant Grove's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,394 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,699 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Pleasant Grove sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,394 of 15,516 and #4,699 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$68,344Pleasant Grove, AL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pleasant Grove, AL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Pleasant Grove, AL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
9,502
Median Income
$68,344
Median Home Value
$189,100
Median Age
44.3
Poverty Rate
15.0%
Labor force participation
60.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1017.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
160.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
856.4
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pleasant Grove's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,539 residents
2021
9,480 residents
2022
9,439 residents
2023
9,404 residents
2024
9,405 residents
2025
9,346 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
28
28
0
$6.3M
2020
38
38
0
$5.5M
2021
41
41
0
$7.1M
2022
22
22
0
$3.7M
2023
8
8
0
$2.3M
2024
6
6
0
$0.9M
Permit volume decreased 79% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.2%
Carpool
12.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
5.3%
Other
1.1%
Based on 4,860 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Alabama statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $245
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Alabama at $245 (electricity about $138 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Alabama statewide averages, not a meter reading for Pleasant Grove. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Alabama's BEA cost-of-living index is 88.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Pleasant Grove is $936/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Alabama statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 61.5 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Alabama statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Pleasant Grove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pleasant Grove compares to similar-size Alabama cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.