Pleasant Valley is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,727 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Valley is the 224th largest community in Missouri.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Pleasant Valley is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.41% of the Pleasant Valley workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Pleasant Valley is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Valley who work in office and administrative support (15.24%), sales jobs (8.12%), and management occupations (5.75%).
Also of interest is that Pleasant Valley has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small city, Pleasant Valley doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Pleasant Valley citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.62% of adults 25 and older in Pleasant Valley have a college degree.
The per capita income in Pleasant Valley in 2022 was $34,813, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,252 for a family of four. However, Pleasant Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pleasant Valley is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pleasant Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Valley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Valley include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Pleasant Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Pacific Island languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Pleasant Valley, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Pleasant Valley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 40.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 18.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Pleasant Valley, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (6.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.