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SheetTX-MOUNT-PLEASANT-TX · Mount Pleasant, TX 16,061 pop · income 24th pct · 9 tracts
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 Mount Pleasant
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mount Pleasant on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Dyersburg · lowest
51,846
Dyersburg · lowest
51,846 median HH income
31.5% of the leader · rank #1
Macclesfield · near
53,036
Macclesfield · near
53,036 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #2
Lapeer · near
53,038
Lapeer · near
53,038 median HH income
32.2% of the leader · rank #3
Mount Pleasant · this city
53,039
Mount Pleasant · this city
53,039 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #4
Berlin · near
53,047
Berlin · near
53,047 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #5
Iowa Falls · near
53,051
Iowa Falls · near
53,051 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #6
Highland · highest
164,459
Highland · highest
164,459 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 Mount Pleasant 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: 16,061.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mount Pleasant - the verdict
Mount Pleasant ranks in the 24th percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
24th
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
31st
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: Mount Pleasant, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 16,061 residents in Mount Pleasant, a small town within Texas. Households in Mount Pleasant report a median income of $53,039 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 14.5%. Home values in Mount Pleasant run a median of $160,500, and the median resident age is 29.9 years. About 12.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 35 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), up 3% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2057.6 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Texas scores 97.1 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Mount Pleasant'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 schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mount Pleasant, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Mount Pleasant?
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 13 public schools within the city match. 12.0% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Mount Pleasant?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 14.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What can 9 Census tracts reveal inside Mount Pleasant?
PlainCities matches 9 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mount Pleasant?
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 Texas, the closest population matches are Gatesville (16,058 residents, $54,802 income); South Houston (16,017 residents, $52,611 income); Highland (16,004 residents, $164,459 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Southern Pines, NC (16,052 residents); East Highland Park, VA (16,071 residents); Dyersburg, TN (16,075 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mount Pleasant?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2057.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 10% 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.
Total reported rate
2057.6
Violent rate
224.5
Property rate
1833.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Mount Pleasant growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +111 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 35 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
2020 estimate
16,114
2025 estimate
16,225
Period change
+0.7%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Mount Pleasant?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 74.2%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
74.2%
Work from home
2.6%
Public transit
0.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 7,135 workers age 16+.
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 C-
97.1 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 D
225 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$53,039
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
14.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Mount Pleasant profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 44/100 (D) · 225 /100k
Household income: 24/100 (F) · $53,039
Poverty rate: 24/100 (F) · 14.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 12/100 (F) · 12.0%
Where Mount Pleasant sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mount Pleasant'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 - Mount Pleasant highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Mount Pleasant, TX (this city): home $160,500, crime 2,058/100k
Southern Pines, NC : home $416,300, crime 2,399/100k
Dyersburg, TN : home $170,900, crime 6,012/100k
Artesia, CA : home $763,700, crime 2,806/100k
Gatesville, TX : home $162,000, crime 1,015/100k
South Houston, TX : home $176,100, crime 2,873/100k
Sulphur Springs, TX : home $188,200, crime 912/100k
Red Oak, TX : home $318,200, crime 2,276/100k
How does Mount Pleasant compare to other US cities?
Where Mount Pleasant sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income24% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety31% 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 Texas, Mount Pleasant ranks #465 of 624 Texas 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 Mount Pleasant against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Texas only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Texas-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Mount Pleasant near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mount Pleasant ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mount Pleasant only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,055 of 1,520
31st percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#744 of 1,505
51st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#524 of 1,663
68th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,147 of 1,663
31st percentile in Texas
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 Texas only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
24th percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mount Pleasant's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mount Pleasant'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 Mount Pleasant's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$160,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Mount Pleasant's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,834 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#943 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Mount Pleasant sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,834 of 15,516 and #943 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$53,039Mount Pleasant, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mount Pleasant, TX median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Mount Pleasant, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)14.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,061
Median Income
$53,039
Median Home Value
$160,500
Median Age
29.9
Poverty Rate
14.5%
Labor force participation
63.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2057.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
224.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1833.1
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
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mount Pleasant's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,114 residents
2021
16,117 residents
2022
16,024 residents
2023
16,072 residents
2024
16,251 residents
2025
16,225 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
35
housing units authorized
Single-Family
33
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
34
34
0
$5.6M
2020
48
32
16
$7.9M
2021
8
8
0
$1.7M
2022
16
0
16
$0.8M
2023
99
24
75
$16.8M
2024
35
33
2
$10.2M
Permit volume increased 3% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.2%
Carpool
20.4%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
2.6%
Other
1.6%
Based on 7,135 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Texas statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $223
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Texas at $223 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Texas statewide averages, not a meter reading for Mount Pleasant. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Texas's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.1 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Mount Pleasant is $1,149/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Texas statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.0 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Texas statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Mount Pleasant sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mount Pleasant compares to similar-size Texas 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.