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38% more nonprofits per person than the typical Missouri town.
Trash day: look up yoursPleasant Hill is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades A− overall, 47th among Missouri's 247 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its schools rank ahead of 77% of Missouri towns. It also does better than most on safety: crime is low: it reports less per resident than 71% of U.S. towns. A typical home there costs about $371K, 4.4 years of the Kansas City metro’s $83K median household income. Pleasant Hill’s average trip to work is 33 minutes, against 22 minutes in Missouri’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Pleasant Hill's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) is stronger than in 92% of U.S. towns. Pleasant Hill Downtown Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Pleasant Hill beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill Primary | PK–2 | 396 |
| Pleasant Hill Elem. | 3–4 | 306 |
| Pleasant Hill Middle | 7–8 | 328 |
Where Pleasant Hill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Missouri), ordered by how far Pleasant Hill is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,554 in 1870, 8,777 in 2020. The archive holds 5 old photos and papers going back to 1869 and 3 maps from 1954 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Pleasant Hill, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Pleasant Hill.
Pleasant Hill fares better on crime within Missouri than nationally and owes part of its health edge to its incomes, but it has commutes longer than most of Missouri.
Typical home values rose 4.5% in the year to September 2026.
| Pleasant Hill | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 69% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,174 a month | $970 a month | $1,185 a month |
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its public schools are run by Pleasant Hill R-III. Two of its 5 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Pleasant Hill High, with 730 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill PrimaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–2 | Grades PK–2 | 396 | – |
| Pleasant Hill HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 730 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within MO on state tests and graduation
The average commute for its 4,050 working residents takes 33.3 minutes, against 23.5 across Missouri. Jobs based here grew from 1,397 in 2013 to 2,082.
Most working residents leave Pleasant Hill for work: only 12% work in town. 6% of Pleasant Hill residents live below the poverty line. Jobs based in Pleasant Hill grew to 2,082 in 2023, 685 more than in 2013.
| Pleasant Hill | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6% | 14% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $96,000 | $62,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 7.2% | 9% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 13% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
At 11.1 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 89% of Missouri’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 8 reported in 2025, 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
The violent crime rate in Pleasant Hill is 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
| Pleasant Hill | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.9 per 1,000 residents | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 7.2 per 1,000 residents | 12.5 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Pleasant Hill has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 21° and about 17 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.2 miles of trail in 10 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Pleasant Hill Recreation Complex, at 41 acres.
| Pleasant Hill | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2% | 2.1% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Cass County Fairground | 0.3 mi | 18 |
| 2. Pleasant Hill Recreation Complex | 0.2 mi | 41 |
| 3. Goppert Fitness Park | 0.2 mi | 13 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Adults 18 to 34 are 29% of residents (22% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 33% of residents (37% statewide). 32% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Pleasant Hill. Pleasant Hill has grown 2.2% since 2020, to 8,956 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Pleasant Hill | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 34.7 years | 38.5 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 32% | 22% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 22% | 23% | 22% |
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women (the survey’s margin: ±2.7 points). Across Missouri, 50.7% of residents are women.
| Pleasant Hill | MO | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11.9% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 11.6% | 10.4% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 13.7% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.9% | 13.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.7% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.1% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 7.4% | 13% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.3% | 10.6% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.2% | 7.3% | 7% |
| No diploma | 5.6% | 8.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 31.7% | 30.2% | 26% |
| Some college | 24.9% | 20.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.1% | 8.4% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 16% | 19.8% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 15.7% | 12.6% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Against the 9,212 U.S. towns with household incomes like Pleasant Hill’s, it is less healthy than 63%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Pleasant Hill beats the Missouri average on 9 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 0.
| Pleasant Hill | Missouri towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 32% | 33% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 15% | 14% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 37% | 35% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 12% | 12% |
| What stands out | Pleasant Hill | MO |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.6% | 13.7% |
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 12.3% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 54% of U.S. communities. Since 1982, 54 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Pleasant Hill.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pleasant Hill. Close and well known come first.
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaArrowhead Stadium
20 mi Stadium & arenaKauffman Stadium
27 mi Park & preserveSubTropolis
28 mi Theme parkWorlds of Fun
27 mi Stadium & arenaCPKC Stadium
26 mi Stadium & arenaT-Mobile CenterArrowhead Stadium: Ichabod, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kauffman Stadium: Mysteryman28, Public domain · SubTropolis: ErgoSum88, Public domain · Worlds of Fun: Tkexb173 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · CPKC Stadium: elisfkc2, CC BY-SA 2.0 · T-Mobile Center: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0
1 within 15 miles of the center of Pleasant Hill
About 5 of every 100 Pleasant Hill residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Missouri.
City in Missouri, United States
Pleasant Hill is a city in Cass and Jackson counties, Missouri, United States. The population was 8,777 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Pleasant Hill is home for the National Weather Service Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, Missouri office, which serves 37 counties in northern and western Missouri and seven counties in extreme east-central Kansas.
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Short answers, built from the data on this page.
By most measures, yes. Pleasant Hill grades A− overall, better than 78% of U.S. towns and #47 of 247 in Missouri. It grades B− for health, B+ for safety and A− for schools.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.
2 notable people were born here, including Josh Smith and Marv Maloney.
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