Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Pleasant Hill commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
165 jobs are based in Pleasant Hill for 545 working residents. Pleasant Hill grades B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. For 4% of workers, the job is at home, next to 13% for Ohio as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Pleasant Hill stands out on work
Pleasant Hill’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Pleasant Hill is better than 72% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pleasant Hill’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($72,330, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Pleasant Hill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pleasant Hill could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who works in Pleasant Hill, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 525 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 145 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Pleasant Hill on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Troy
Where Pleasant Hill clocks in
17% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant Hill, 2014 → 2024: 47 → 165. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Pleasant Hill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasant Hill workers work from home, vs 13% across Ohio. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 634 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Ohio: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Miles to work from Pleasant Hill
About 16% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Pleasant Hill, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pleasant Hill is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.7% across Ohio, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 664 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.4% of Pleasant Hill households have no vehicle (Ohio 7.5%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pleasant Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Pleasant Hill ranks: 715th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | New California OH | 1,672 | $162K | 0.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Millcreek Township OH | 1,562 | $151K | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Bratenahl OH | 1,396 | $138K | 4.4% | 0.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 713 | Spafford NY | 1,596 | $111K | 5.8% | 1.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 714 | Shell Point SC | 1,439 | $82K | 3.1% | 6.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 715 | Pleasant Hill OH | 1,270 | $72K | 3.4% | 4.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 716 | Lovett Township IN | 1,047 | $94K | 0.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 717 | Harrison Township OH | 1,047 | $89K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Pleasant Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Ohio.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Pleasant Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant Hill?
$72,330 (±$16,956) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $71,389 across Ohio and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant Hill?
3.4%, against 13.3% across Ohio and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasant Hill?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Ohio and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasant Hill work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Troy (17%, 7 mi), Newton Township (5%, 1 mi), Piqua (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Pleasant Hill walkable?
Pleasant Hill is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pleasant Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pleasant Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant Hill
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.