Photo: Nicolas Henderson from Coppell, Texas · CC BY 2.0Mount Pleasant draws 10,292 commuters a day, with 1.9 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Mount Pleasant C; getting around on foot earns it B. There are 14,080 jobs in Mount Pleasant for 7,308 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mount Pleasant stands out on work
Commutes from Mount Pleasant are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 27 across Texas. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Texas worker. Time on the road ↓
Mount Pleasant is where the jobs are
Mount Pleasant has 14,080 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 23,000 people are in town, 42% more than the 16,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Mount Pleasant makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Mount Pleasant are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mount Pleasant residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
Mount Pleasant draws workers from far and wide
The 14,080 jobs in Mount Pleasant are filled from a wide area. Mount Pleasant’s own residents hold 27% and the ten next-biggest home towns 11%; the other 62% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Few Mount Pleasant workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 14% across Texas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Mount Pleasant’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mount Pleasant is better than 32% of U.S. towns, #416 of 642 in Texas. Unemployment holds Mount Pleasant’s grade up (2.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($50,515, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Pleasant could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Commuting from Mount Pleasant: about 16 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Pleasant workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,799 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Mount Pleasant
On a workday 3,520 residents head out to work and 3,788 work right here.
About 23,000 people are in Mount Pleasant on a workday afternoon, 42% more 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.
Factories, building and farms: 42% of the jobs in Mount Pleasant
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Pleasant, 2013 → 2023: 13,750 → 14,080. 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 Mount Pleasant’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Mount Pleasant live
Where Mount Pleasant clocks in
3% of workers
2% 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.
How many miles Mount Pleasant commutes
About 27% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Mount Pleasant is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Pleasant is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns, #222 of 642 in Texas. Both inputs place Mount Pleasant near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,068 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). 7.0% of Mount Pleasant households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Mount Pleasant’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Pleasant next to U.S. towns of 11,000 to 22,000: 1,741st of 2,220 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 4 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Lantana TX | 12,766 | $199K | 0.6% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Bellaire TX | 17,434 | $244K | 2.4% | 3.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,739 | Dallas GA | 15,402 | $76K | 16.3% | 8.3% | 4% | C |
| 1,740 | Batavia NY | 15,168 | $59K | 14.2% | 5.5% | 26% | C |
| 1,741 | Mount Pleasant TX | 16,225 | $51K | 18.3% | 2.5% | 52% | C |
| 1,742 | Cheney WA | 12,650 | $55K | 31.3% | 13.1% | 17% | C |
| 1,743 | Middle Smithfield Township PA | 15,964 | $88K | 10.3% | 7.6% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Mount Pleasant, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Mount Pleasant: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Pleasant?
$50,515 (±$6,060) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Pleasant?
18.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Pleasant?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Pleasant work?
52% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dallas (3%, 107 mi), Pittsburg (3%, 11 mi), Longview (2%, 46 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Pleasant walkable?
Mount Pleasant is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Pleasant without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Pleasant, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Pleasant
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.