Pleasant Valley is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 2,726 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. 37.84% 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 (12.91%), sales jobs (10.54%), and food service (6.80%).
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.
A relatively large number of people in Pleasant Valley telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.47% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 city, Pleasant Valley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Pleasant Valley are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.55% of adults in Pleasant Valley having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pleasant Valley in 2022 was $37,403, which is wealthy relative to Missouri, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,612 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, Italian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Pleasant Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Pacific Island languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 Valley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.2% 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 51.9% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.5% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 (17.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.7%), along with some Italian 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 (47.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.