Pleasant Plains vs Spaulding

A side-by-side comparison of Pleasant Plains and Spaulding: population, income, housing, and more.

Pleasant Plains and Spaulding are places in Illinois. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Spaulding has the higher population (916 vs 785 in Pleasant Plains). Spaulding has the higher median household income ($104,205 vs $78,542 in Pleasant Plains). Spaulding has the higher median home value ($212,500 vs $152,000 in Pleasant Plains).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
Population	785	916
Median age	35.2 yrs	52.5 yrs
Median household income	$78,542	$104,205
Median home value	$152,000	$212,500
Median gross rent	$1,038	$692
Housing units	352	417
Homeownership rate	81.9%	93.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	25.0%	33.6%
Unemployment rate	3.2%	4.6%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
Population	774 → 785 (+1.4%)	863 → 916 (+6.1%)
Median household income	$71,944 → $78,542 (+9.2%)	$101,458 → $104,205 (+2.7%)
Median home value	$115,200 → $152,000 (+31.9%)	$196,500 → $212,500 (+8.1%)
Median gross rent	$755 → $1,038 (+37.5%)	$779 → $692 (-11.2%)

Pleasant Plains

Population

774785

Median household income

$71,944$78,542

Median home value

$115,200$152,000

Median gross rent

$755$1,038

Spaulding

Population

863916

Median household income

$101,458$104,205

Median home value

$196,500$212,500

Median gross rent

$779$692

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
Under 5	2.4%	2.2%
5 to 17	19.2%	11.0%
18 to 24	8.2%	9.4%
25 to 34	19.6%	8.4%
35 to 44	9.7%	8.0%
45 to 54	12.1%	13.2%
55 to 64	13.4%	21.9%
65 to 74	7.9%	19.8%
75 and over	7.5%	6.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
White (non-Hispanic)	94.4%	95.6%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	1.7%	0.0%
Asian	0.3%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	1.2%
Two or more races	1.7%	1.7%
Hispanic or Latino	2.0%	0.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
No high school diploma	3.3%	11.0%
High school graduate	35.6%	27.6%
Some college or associate's	36.1%	27.8%
Bachelor's degree	17.4%	20.3%
Graduate or professional degree	7.6%	13.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
Drove alone	77.9%	78.0%
Carpooled	11.4%	7.5%
Public transit	0.0%	0.8%
Walked	1.1%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	6.0%	13.0%
Other means	3.6%	0.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
1-unit, detached	88.1%	94.2%
1-unit, attached	3.7%	1.4%
2 to 4 units	5.1%	1.4%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	2.9%
Mobile home & other	3.1%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Plains	Spaulding
Poverty rate	4.7%	3.9%
Average household size	2.37	2.31
Mean commute (minutes)	25	19
Median year structure built	1971	1991