Packwood vs Pleasant Plain

A side-by-side comparison of Packwood and Pleasant Plain: population, income, housing, and more.

Packwood and Pleasant Plain are places in Iowa. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Packwood has the higher population (484 vs 79 in Pleasant Plain). Pleasant Plain has the higher median household income ($66,250 vs $43,750 in Packwood). Packwood has the higher median home value ($79,100 vs $73,800 in Pleasant Plain).

Population, income & housing

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
Population	484	79
Median age	37.4 yrs	49.7 yrs
Median household income	$43,750	$66,250
Median home value	$79,100	$73,800
Median gross rent	$750	—
Housing units	154	41
Homeownership rate	86.8%	95.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.5%	9.4%
Unemployment rate	13.9%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
Population	286 → 484 (+69.2%)	87 → 79 (-9.2%)
Median household income	$53,958 → $43,750 (-18.9%)	$53,125 → $66,250 (+24.7%)
Median home value	$84,200 → $79,100 (-6.1%)	$62,500 → $73,800 (+18.1%)
Median gross rent	$383 → $750 (+95.8%)	—

Packwood

Population

286484

Median household income

$53,958$43,750

Median home value

$84,200$79,100

Median gross rent

$383$750

Pleasant Plain

Population

8779

Median household income

$53,125$66,250

Median home value

$62,500$73,800

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
Under 5	16.7%	2.5%
5 to 17	17.6%	13.9%
18 to 24	1.7%	2.5%
25 to 34	5.6%	7.6%
35 to 44	18.2%	5.1%
45 to 54	8.3%	25.3%
55 to 64	15.7%	19.0%
65 to 74	11.0%	11.4%
75 and over	5.4%	12.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
White (non-Hispanic)	98.1%	100.0%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.9%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
No high school diploma	19.0%	6.3%
High school graduate	38.1%	37.5%
Some college or associate's	27.4%	46.9%
Bachelor's degree	12.9%	6.3%
Graduate or professional degree	2.6%	3.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
Drove alone	91.6%	62.2%
Carpooled	3.4%	6.7%
Public transit	5.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	31.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
1-unit, detached	82.5%	95.1%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	5.8%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	1.3%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	10.4%	4.9%

Poverty & households

	Packwood	Pleasant Plain
Poverty rate	1.0%	5.1%
Average household size	3.21	1.93
Mean commute (minutes)	20	22
Median year structure built	1963	1938