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SheetCT-PLEASANT-VALLEY-CT · Pleasant Valley, CT 343 pop · income 34th 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 Valley
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pleasant Valley on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pearcy · lowest
27,472
Pearcy · lowest
27,472 median HH income
11.0% of the leader · rank #1
Veedersburg · near
59,125
Veedersburg · near
59,125 median HH income
23.6% of the leader · rank #2
Morning Glory · near
59,132
Morning Glory · near
59,132 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #3
Jermyn · near
59,133
Jermyn · near
59,133 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #4
Pleasant Vall… · this city
59,135
Pleasant Vall… · this city
59,135 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #5
Ravia · near
59,141
Ravia · near
59,141 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #6
West Mountain · highest
250,001
West Mountain · highest
250,001 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Pleasant Valley on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 343.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Pleasant Valley lands in the 34th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
34th
percentile, household income
54th
percentile, home value
86th
percentile, median rent
📝 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 Valley, CT
343 people live in Pleasant Valley, Connecticut - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Pleasant Valley report a median income of $59,135 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 29.6%. Typical homes in Pleasant Valley are valued around $242,600, and the median resident age is 43.2 years. 44.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 48.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Connecticut carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Connecticut scores 103.6 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,955 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $345 across Connecticut, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Pleasant Valley workers runs 20.6 minutes, with 61.5% driving alone and 5.6% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 87.6 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pleasant Valley'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 housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pleasant Valley, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Pleasant Valley?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 29.6%, 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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
What does the journey to work look like in Pleasant Valley?
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 61.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.6 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pleasant Valley?
Within Connecticut, the closest population matches are Riverton (342 residents, $118,708 income); Dayville (379 residents, $66,000 income); Lakeside Woods (379 residents, $201,875 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pearcy, AR (343 residents); Honcut, CA (343 residents); Avalon, GA (343 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.
Below median income · poverty 29.6% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.6 (US=100)
High cost · BEA RPP 2024, Connecticut average
F
City profile score · Pleasant Valley, CT
31/100
4 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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$59,135
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
103.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate F
29.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Pleasant Valley profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.6%
Household income: 33/100 (F) · $59,135
Cost of living: 24/100 (F) · 103.6 index
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 29.6%
How does Pleasant Valley compare to other US cities?
Here's how Pleasant Valley stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income34% higher than other cities
Home value54% pricier than other cities
Median rent86% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Pleasant Valley against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Connecticut only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Connecticut-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Pleasant Valley near the bottom of Connecticut's cities
Among the 207 Connecticut cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pleasant Valley ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pleasant Valley only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#181 of 198
9th percentile in Connecticut
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 207
0th percentile in Connecticut
Median Home Value
#162 of 201
19th percentile in Connecticut
Poverty Rate
#4 of 204
98th percentile in Connecticut
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#112 of 207
45th percentile in Connecticut
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 Connecticut only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
34th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Pleasant Valley's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$242,60046th percentilemore affordable than 46% 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 Valley's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,985 of 15,516
More affordable than 29% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,542 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.1×, Pleasant Valley sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,985 of 15,516 and #8,542 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$59,135Pleasant Valley, CT median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pleasant Valley, CT 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 Valley, CT.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)29.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)48.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
343
Median Income
$59,135
Median Home Value
$242,600
Median Age
43.2
Poverty Rate
29.6%
Labor force participation
48.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.6%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.6 minutes
Drive Alone
61.5%
Carpool
32.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
5.6%
Based on 143 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Connecticut statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $345
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Connecticut at $345 (electricity about $175 , water and sewer about $60 ).
These are Connecticut statewide averages, not a meter reading for Pleasant Valley. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Connecticut's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.6 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Pleasant Valley is $1,955/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Connecticut statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 87.6 / 100 (Very High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Connecticut statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Pleasant Valley sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pleasant Valley compares to similar-size Connecticut 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, 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.