Pleasant View, PA

Data Snapshot: Pleasant View, PA

Pleasant View is a city in Pennsylvania with a population of 693 residents based on U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here reaches $74,000 per year, while the poverty rate sits at 0.0%. Typical homes in Pleasant View are valued around $115,200, and the median resident age is 46.2 years. About 10.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 55.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.

On a cost-of-living index where 100 equals the national average, Pennsylvania registers 97.6 (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,225 per month. Average monthly utility bills run around $260 based on EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Pleasant View report an average commute of 29.8 minutes, with 71.8% driving alone and 6.3% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 67.4 out of 100 (Moderate).

According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, PlainCities renders standardized city-level demographic, income, education, employment, and housing indicators across more than 19,000 incorporated places nationwide. Population counts and median household income figures are sourced directly from Census Table B01003 and B19013 respectively, with poverty rates from B17001 and cost-of-living adjustments from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Regional Price Parities (RPP) 2024 release. Every value displayed in this snapshot links back to the official upstream tables and is refreshed on the ACS annual release cadence (typically December of the survey year + 1).

Methodology: city boundaries follow the Census Bureau's place-level geography (incorporated places, census-designated places, and consolidated city-county governments), with FIPS codes ensuring consistent identifiers across decennial and annual surveys. Cost-of-living comparisons use BEA's Regional Price Parities (RPP) indexed to the national average (100), enabling cross-city purchasing-power comparisons. See our methodology page for full source attribution, refresh cadence, and known data quality limitations including margin-of-error disclosure and sample-size thresholds.