Mount Pleasant is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 16,015 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Mount Pleasant is the 182nd largest community in Texas.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mount Pleasant is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.13% of the Mount Pleasant workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mount Pleasant is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Pleasant who work in sales jobs (10.50%), office and administrative support (7.57%), and food service (7.08%). Also of interest is that Mount Pleasant has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One of the benefits of Mount Pleasant is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.12 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.In terms of college education, the citizens of Mount Pleasant rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.25% of adults 25 and older in Mount Pleasant have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Mount Pleasant in 2022 was $22,858, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,432 for a family of four. However, Mount Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Pleasant is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Pleasant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Mount Pleasant, accounting for 52.21% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Mount Pleasant residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Pleasant include English, German, Irish, African, and European. Mount Pleasant also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.95%. The most common language spoken in Mount Pleasant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
