Photo: Volunteer Politics · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Pleasant View works elsewhere
Pleasant View has 1,391 jobs, and 2,850 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Pleasant View A−; getting around on foot earns it B. Measured by household income, Pleasant View is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Pleasant View: the gist
44% of Pleasant View works in Nashville
1,260 working residents, 44%, have their main job in Nashville, 21 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Pleasant View itself. The commute map ↓
Pleasant View workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 26 across Tennessee. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Pleasant View
69% of Pleasant View residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 43% of the jobs based in Pleasant View pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Pleasant View has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Pleasant View went from 873 in 2013 to 1,391 in 2023, +59%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
36% of the jobs based in Pleasant View are held by workers 29 or younger, against 21% of Pleasant View’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Pleasant View
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pleasant View is better than 80% of U.S. towns, #31 of 177 in Tennessee. The poverty rate holds Pleasant View’s grade up (1.4%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pleasant View could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
44% of working residents work in Nashville
Where Pleasant View clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
From Pleasant View, about 35 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasant View workers work from home, vs 13% across Tennessee. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,334 commuters (the 17% who work from home are left out). Across Tennessee: 87% 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.
What Pleasant View’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant View, 2013 → 2023: 873 → 1,391. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Pleasant View for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,675 residents head out to work, 175 work right here, and 1,216 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,300 people are in Pleasant View on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Pleasant View commutes
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Pleasant View: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pleasant View is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #38 of 177 in Tennessee. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.0% across Tennessee.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,821 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). 2.1% of Pleasant View households have no vehicle (Tennessee 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Pleasant View’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pleasant View is 761st of 3,375 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Oak Hill TN | 4,581 | $216K | 1.2% | 1.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Forest Hills TN | 4,473 | $250K | 6.7% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 353 | Tellico Village TN | 7,414 | $107K | 3.3% | 1.9% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 759 | Gibraltar MI | 4,792 | $92K | 3.2% | 5.0% | 3% | A− |
| 760 | Pleasant Garden NC | 5,165 | $88K | 9.7% | 1.9% | 2% | A− |
| 761 | Pleasant View TN | 5,797 | $109K | 1.4% | 6.4% | 6% | A− |
| 762 | Brookfield WI | 6,515 | $89K | 7.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A− |
| 763 | Briar TX | 7,228 | $104K | 6.9% | 3.7% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 View, the top three, the last and three more from Tennessee.
Next door to Pleasant View
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pleasant View workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant View | – | A− | B | 35 min | $109,213 |
| Coopertown | under 2% | A | D | 31 min | $118,241 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pleasant View’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 View: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant View?
$109,213 (±$9,582) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,595 across Tennessee and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant View?
1.4%, against 13.8% across Tennessee and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasant View?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Tennessee and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasant View work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nashville (44%, 21 mi), Ashland City (7%, 9 mi), Clarksville (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pleasant View walkable?
Pleasant View is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pleasant View without a car?
1% 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 View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant View
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.