Decatur vs Pleasant Mills

A side-by-side comparison of Decatur and Pleasant Mills: population, income, housing, and more.

Decatur and Pleasant Mills are places in Indiana. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Decatur has the higher population (9,769 vs 130 in Pleasant Mills). Pleasant Mills has the higher median home value ($311,700 vs $132,900 in Decatur). Since 2019, Decatur's population has grown faster (-1.0% vs -6.5%).

Population, income & housing

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
Population	9,769	130
Median age	43.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
Median household income	$58,867	—
Median home value	$132,900	$311,700
Median gross rent	$804	—
Housing units	4,708	53
Homeownership rate	73.1%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.7%	44.2%
Unemployment rate	2.1%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
Population	9,863 → 9,769 (-1.0%)	139 → 130 (-6.5%)
Median household income	$45,149 → $58,867 (+30.4%)	—
Median home value	$97,700 → $132,900 (+36.0%)	$306,300 → $311,700 (+1.8%)
Median gross rent	$619 → $804 (+29.9%)	—

Decatur

Population

9,8639,769

Median household income

$45,149$58,867

Median home value

$97,700$132,900

Median gross rent

$619$804

Pleasant Mills

Population

139130

Median home value

$306,300$311,700

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
Under 5	7.8%	0.0%
5 to 17	11.1%	10.8%
18 to 24	9.7%	9.2%
25 to 34	12.0%	13.8%
35 to 44	11.2%	9.2%
45 to 54	14.0%	16.2%
55 to 64	15.2%	40.8%
65 to 74	11.3%	0.0%
75 and over	7.6%	0.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
White (non-Hispanic)	87.0%	89.2%
Black or African American	1.1%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	10.8%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.3%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.9%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	9.7%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
No high school diploma	5.7%	0.0%
High school graduate	49.5%	46.2%
Some college or associate's	32.1%	9.6%
Bachelor's degree	10.4%	44.2%
Graduate or professional degree	2.3%	0.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
Drove alone	87.1%	100.0%
Carpooled	6.9%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	3.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	2.4%	0.0%
Other means	0.5%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
1-unit, detached	78.6%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	3.5%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	3.7%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	11.2%	0.0%
20 or more units	3.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Decatur	Pleasant Mills
Poverty rate	10.8%	0.0%
Average household size	2.17	2.45
Mean commute (minutes)	23	17
Median year structure built	1968	1994