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SheetPA-PLEASANT-HILLS-PA · Pleasant Hills, PA 8,418 pop · income 76th 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 Hills
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pleasant Hills on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lock Haven · lowest
40,131
Lock Haven · lowest
40,131 median HH income
16.1% of the leader · rank #1
Bayshore · near
97,174
Bayshore · near
97,174 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #2
Pleasant Hills · this city
97,177
Pleasant Hills · this city
97,177 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #3
Round Rock · near
97,187
Round Rock · near
97,187 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #4
Neapolis · near
97,188
Neapolis · near
97,188 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #5
Snook · near
97,188
Snook · near
97,188 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #6
Villanova · highest
250,001
Villanova · 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 Hills 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: 8,418.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pleasant Hills - the verdict
Nationally, Pleasant Hills sits in the 76th percentile for household income and the 56th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
76th
percentile, household income
52nd
percentile, home value
54th
percentile, median rent
56th
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 Hills, PA
Pleasant Hills is a small town in Pennsylvania, home to 8,418 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Pleasant Hills brings in $97,177 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.4%. Pleasant Hills's housing stock carries a median value of $235,500, and the median resident age is 45.7 years. Educational attainment runs 40.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 0 residential units authorized here in 2024 (No Permits). Pleasant Hills reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1197.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Pennsylvania tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 97.6 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,225 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Pennsylvania run around $260, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 out of 100 (Moderate).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pleasant Hills'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 work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income to population change to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pleasant Hills, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Pleasant Hills?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 63.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pleasant Hills?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1197.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 47% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Pleasant Hills?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pleasant Hills?
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 Pennsylvania, the closest population matches are Villanova (8,431 residents, $250,000+ income); Lock Haven (8,386 residents, $40,131 income); Parkville (8,354 residents, $74,509 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Mont Belvieu, TX (8,416 residents); Kronenwetter, WI (8,420 residents); Guadalupe, CA (8,422 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.
Population change
Is Pleasant Hills growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -261 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -3.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 0 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 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.
2020 estimate
8,473
2025 estimate
8,212
Period change
-3.1%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Pennsylvania average
B+
City profile score · Pleasant Hills, PA
77/100
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.
Violent crime A+
12 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A+
1.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B+
$97,177
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living C-
97.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Pleasant Hills profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 94/100 (A+) · 12 /100k
Poverty rate: 90/100 (A+) · 1.4%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $97,177
Bachelor's+ share: 75/100 (B+) · 40.2%
Cost of living: 50/100 (C-) · 97.6 index
Where Pleasant Hills sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pleasant Hills'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 Hills highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Pleasant Hills, PA (this city): home $235,500, crime 1,197/100k
Mont Belvieu, TX : home $365,200, crime 1,490/100k
Kronenwetter, WI : home $240,700, crime 314/100k
Guadalupe, CA : home $452,100, crime 582/100k
Whitefish, MT : home $648,200, crime 1,213/100k
Grandview Heights, OH : home $548,100, crime 2,144/100k
Lock Haven, PA : home $127,500, crime 1,817/100k
Swissvale, PA : home $141,300, crime 2,235/100k
How does Pleasant Hills compare to other US cities?
Where Pleasant Hills sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value52% pricier than other cities
Median rent54% pricier than other cities
Safety56% 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 Pennsylvania, Pleasant Hills ranks #259 of 402 Pennsylvania 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 Hills against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Pennsylvania only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Pennsylvania-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Pleasant Hills near the bottom of Pennsylvania's cities
Among the 1,865 Pennsylvania cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pleasant Hills ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pleasant Hills only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#281 of 1,765
84th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,865
0th percentile in Pennsylvania
Median Home Value
#446 of 1,790
75th percentile in Pennsylvania
Poverty Rate
#1,381 of 1,856
25th percentile in Pennsylvania
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#288 of 1,861
84th percentile in Pennsylvania
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 Pennsylvania only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
76th percentile nationally for median household income · 56th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pleasant Hills's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pleasant Hills'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 Hills's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$235,50048th percentilemore affordable than 48% 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 Hills's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,615 of 15,516
More affordable than 77% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,284 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.4×, Pleasant Hills sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,615 of 15,516 and #3,284 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
$97,177Pleasant Hills, PA median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pleasant Hills, PA 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 Hills, PA.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,418
Median Income
$97,177
Median Home Value
$235,500
Median Age
45.7
Poverty Rate
1.4%
Labor force participation
59.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1197.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
12.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1185.3
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pleasant Hills's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,473 residents
2021
8,385 residents
2022
8,382 residents
2023
8,329 residents
2024
8,266 residents
2025
8,212 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
Total Permits (2024)
0
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
0
0
0
-
2020
0
0
0
-
2021
51
8
43
$8.2M
2022
11
11
0
$2.1M
2023
0
0
0
-
2024
0
0
0
-
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
63.1%
Carpool
14.2%
Public Transit
2.4%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
19.4%
Based on 4,221 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Pennsylvania statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $260
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Pennsylvania at $260 (electricity about $120 , water and sewer about $52 ).
These are Pennsylvania statewide averages, not a meter reading for Pleasant Hills. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Pennsylvania's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.6 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Pleasant Hills is $1,225/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Pennsylvania statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 / 100 (Moderate).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Pennsylvania statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Pleasant Hills sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pleasant Hills compares to similar-size Pennsylvania 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, 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.