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SheetMO-PLEASANT-HILL-MO · Pleasant Hill, MO 8,853 pop · income 74th 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 Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pleasant Hill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Clanton · lowest
49,952
Clanton · lowest
49,952 median HH income
20.0% of the leader · rank #1
Charles · near
94,830
Charles · near
94,830 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #2
Pleasant Hill · this city
94,840
Pleasant Hill · this city
94,840 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #3
West Hollywood · near
94,844
West Hollywood · near
94,844 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #4
North Lima · near
94,844
North Lima · near
94,844 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #5
Hickory · near
94,844
Hickory · near
94,844 median HH income
37.9% of the leader · rank #6
Ladue · highest
250,001
Ladue · 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Pleasant Hill 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: 8,853.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pleasant Hill - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Pleasant Hill places in the 74th percentile for household income and the 71st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
55th
percentile, home value
7th
percentile, median rent
71st
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 Hill, MO
Missouri's Pleasant Hill is a small town, with 8,853 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Pleasant Hill households earn a median of $94,840 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. Pleasant Hill's housing stock carries a median value of $245,400, and the median resident age is 35.6 years. 28.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 65.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 24 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 20% from five years earlier. Pleasant Hill reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 821.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 55.2°F with 42.7 inches of precipitation per year and 16.8 inches of snowfall.
Living costs in Missouri run below the national norm: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Missouri scores 90.8 (Well Below Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $972 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Missouri's average monthly utility costs around $219 (state average). Commute times here average 31.6 minutes, with 77.9% driving alone and 8.3% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.6 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pleasant Hill'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 population change to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to schools and households to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pleasant Hill, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
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.
Question 1
Is Pleasant Hill growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +171 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 24 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pleasant Hill?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 821.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 64% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Pleasant Hill?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 31.6 minutes.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pleasant Hill?
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.
Within Missouri, the closest population matches are Warrenton (8,870 residents, $64,400 income); Ladue (8,948 residents, $250,000+ income); Cameron (8,721 residents, $56,090 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Harwood Heights, IL (8,851 residents); Milford, NH (8,857 residents); Larkfield-Wikiup, CA (8,861 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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Pleasant Hill?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 55.2°F, with 42.7 inches of precipitation and 16.8 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Missouri is 50.6 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
50.6
Annual precipitation
42.7 in
Mean temperature
55.2°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the education layer cover for Pleasant Hill?
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.
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 28.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
2.1%
Bachelor's degree+
28.7%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Pleasant Hill?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$245,400
Household income
$94,840
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living A-
90.8 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Household income B
$94,840
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
104 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Pleasant Hill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Cost of living: 83/100 (A-) · 90.8 index
Household income: 74/100 (B) · $94,840
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 104 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.7%
Where Pleasant Hill sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pleasant Hill'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 Hill highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Pleasant Hill, MO (this city): home $245,400, crime 822/100k
Harwood Heights, IL : home $316,400, crime 1,399/100k
Milford, NH : home $337,900, crime 484/100k
Signal Mountain, TN : home $482,300, crime 526/100k
Bee Cave, TX : home $699,100, crime 2,817/100k
Clanton, AL : home $158,200, crime 3,622/100k
Warrenton, MO : home $193,100, crime 691/100k
Ladue, MO : home $1,027,000, crime 893/100k
Cameron, MO : home $178,300, crime 1,977/100k
Park Hills, MO : home $121,100, crime 2,213/100k
Clinton, MO : home $147,700, crime 2,815/100k
Sunset Hills, MO : home $522,300, crime 1,301/100k
How does Pleasant Hill compare to other US cities?
Pleasant Hill measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value55% pricier than other cities
Median rent7% pricier than other cities
Safety71% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Missouri, Pleasant Hill ranks #52 of 234 Missouri cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Pleasant Hill against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Missouri only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Missouri-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Pleasant Hill near the bottom of Missouri's cities
Among the 875 Missouri cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pleasant Hill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pleasant Hill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#91 of 842
89th percentile in Missouri
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 875
0th percentile in Missouri
Median Home Value
#106 of 833
87th percentile in Missouri
Poverty Rate
#738 of 875
15th percentile in Missouri
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#173 of 875
80th percentile in Missouri
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 Missouri only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 71st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pleasant Hill's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pleasant Hill'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 Hill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$245,40045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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 Hill's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,442 of 15,516
More affordable than 71% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,963 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.6×, Pleasant Hill sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,442 of 15,516 and #3,963 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
$94,840Pleasant Hill, MO median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pleasant Hill, MO 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 Hill, MO.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,853
Median Income
$94,840
Median Home Value
$245,400
Median Age
35.6
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
65.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
821.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
104.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
717.5
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
55.2°F
Annual Precipitation
42.7"
Annual Snowfall
16.8"
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pleasant Hill's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,785 residents
2021
8,802 residents
2022
8,704 residents
2023
8,677 residents
2024
8,863 residents
2025
8,956 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
24
housing units authorized
Single-Family
18
detached homes
Multifamily
6
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
30
20
10
$3.8M
2020
45
18
27
$5.8M
2021
60
58
2
$9.8M
2022
31
31
0
$4.2M
2023
45
17
28
$7.4M
2024
24
18
6
$5.4M
Permit volume decreased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
31.6 minutes
Drive Alone
77.9%
Carpool
13.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
8.3%
Based on 4,601 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Missouri statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $219
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Missouri at $219 (electricity about $105 , water and sewer about $42 ).
These are Missouri statewide averages, not a meter reading for Pleasant Hill. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Missouri's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.8 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Pleasant Hill is $972/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Missouri statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 50.6 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Missouri statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Pleasant Hill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pleasant Hill compares to similar-size Missouri 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.