Pleasant Plain is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 133 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant Plain is the 807th largest community in Ohio. Pleasant Plain has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Pleasant Plain real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Pleasant Plain house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some villages, Pleasant Plain isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pleasant Plain are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant Plain is a village of managers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant Plain who work in management occupations (32.04%), office and administrative support (11.65%), and sales jobs (9.71%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 35.29% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Being a small village, Pleasant Plain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Pleasant Plain who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.33% of the adults in Pleasant Plain have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pleasant Plain in 2022 was $40,940, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,760 for a family of four.
The people who call Pleasant Plain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasant Plain residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pleasant Plain include German, European, Irish, English, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Pleasant Plain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Ohio. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 95.4% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Ohio. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 20.4% have English ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Pleasant Plain are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 72.5% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 44.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Pleasant Plain, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.2%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (30.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.