Morten Rasmussen House · Photo: Ntsimp · CC0Household incomes in Mount Pleasant trail those of 60% of U.S. towns
19.7% of residents live below the poverty line, against 8.5% across Utah. The two grades for Mount Pleasant are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in five work in Mount Pleasant; the top destination outside it is Ephraim (6%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Pleasant at work: what stands out
Mount Pleasant trades workers with the towns around it
Mount Pleasant has about as many jobs (1,276) as working residents (1,384), but they are mostly different people: 1,077 residents leave for work each day while 969 people come in. Only 24% of the jobs in Mount Pleasant are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Many jobs in Mount Pleasant pay little
35% of the jobs based in Mount Pleasant pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 32% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Mount Pleasant
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mount Pleasant is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #112 of 119 in Utah. Unemployment holds Mount Pleasant’s grade up (4.0%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Pleasant could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Who commutes out of Mount Pleasant, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,077 residents head out to work, 307 work right here, and 969 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Mount Pleasant: 1,276 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Pleasant, 2013 → 2023: 963 → 1,276. 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mount Pleasant
About 36% 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.
Commuting out of Mount Pleasant: the destinations
Where Mount Pleasant clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Mount Pleasant
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Pleasant workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,404 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
In Mount Pleasant, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Pleasant is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns, #71 of 119 in Utah. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.0% across Utah.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,625 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). 1.5% of Mount Pleasant households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Pleasant’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,177 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,400, Mount Pleasant comes 3,389th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Lake Point UT | 2,947 | $137K | 2.0% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Mountain Green UT | 3,976 | $150K | 0.9% | 1.7% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 427 | Wellsville UT | 4,303 | $104K | 3.1% | 1.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,387 | Tonkawa OK | 2,983 | $59K | 13.9% | 4.9% | 22% | C− |
| 3,388 | Anthony TX | 4,539 | $55K | 19.7% | 8.1% | 5% | C− |
| 3,389 | Mount Pleasant UT | 4,018 | $69K | 19.7% | 4.0% | 22% | C− |
| 3,390 | River Road NC | 3,366 | $46K | 22.3% | 2.5% | 3% | C− |
| 3,391 | Humboldt IA | 4,675 | $75K | 15.9% | 7.8% | 35% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,177 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Utah.
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?
$68,920 (±$10,600) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Pleasant?
19.7%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Pleasant?
23 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Pleasant work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ephraim (6%, 14 mi), Moroni (5%, 7 mi), Fairview (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Pleasant walkable?
Mount Pleasant is more walkable than 63% 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 Mount Pleasant 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 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.