Altoona vs Pleasant Hill

A side-by-side comparison of Altoona and Pleasant Hill: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Altoona has the higher population (20,592 vs 10,796 in Pleasant Hill). Altoona has the higher median household income ($87,123 vs $86,890 in Pleasant Hill). Pleasant Hill has the higher median home value ($284,100 vs $257,300 in Altoona).

Population, income & housing

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
Population	20,592	10,796
Median age	35.5 yrs	41.1 yrs
Median household income	$87,123	$86,890
Median home value	$257,300	$284,100
Median gross rent	$1,203	$1,204
Housing units	8,187	4,320
Homeownership rate	68.3%	75.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	32.6%	32.2%
Unemployment rate	6.7%	7.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
Population	18,458 → 20,592 (+11.6%)	9,871 → 10,796 (+9.4%)
Median household income	$77,581 → $87,123 (+12.3%)	$78,818 → $86,890 (+10.2%)
Median home value	$196,600 → $257,300 (+30.9%)	$201,500 → $284,100 (+41.0%)
Median gross rent	$931 → $1,203 (+29.2%)	$1,002 → $1,204 (+20.2%)

Altoona

Population

18,45820,592

Median household income

$77,581$87,123

Median home value

$196,600$257,300

Median gross rent

$931$1,203

Pleasant Hill

Population

9,87110,796

Median household income

$78,818$86,890

Median home value

$201,500$284,100

Median gross rent

$1,002$1,204

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
Under 5	6.4%	8.1%
5 to 17	19.9%	18.1%
18 to 24	8.3%	6.6%
25 to 34	14.8%	10.9%
35 to 44	13.6%	13.1%
45 to 54	11.0%	9.4%
55 to 64	11.5%	12.4%
65 to 74	9.3%	14.2%
75 and over	5.2%	7.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	84.4%	82.1%
Black or African American	3.5%	4.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.0%
Asian	1.5%	3.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.3%	0.0%
Two or more races	3.3%	2.0%
Hispanic or Latino	6.9%	7.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
No high school diploma	4.4%	2.7%
High school graduate	30.9%	33.5%
Some college or associate's	32.1%	31.6%
Bachelor's degree	24.6%	22.8%
Graduate or professional degree	8.0%	9.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
Drove alone	79.6%	80.4%
Carpooled	4.9%	5.9%
Public transit	0.5%	0.1%
Walked	0.0%	2.1%
Bicycle	0.2%	0.4%
Worked from home	12.7%	10.5%
Other means	2.1%	0.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
1-unit, detached	60.8%	58.6%
1-unit, attached	10.8%	17.0%
2 to 4 units	2.9%	0.8%
5 to 19 units	8.1%	8.9%
20 or more units	13.7%	11.3%
Mobile home & other	3.7%	3.4%

Poverty & households

	Altoona	Pleasant Hill
Poverty rate	7.2%	9.9%
Average household size	2.60	2.64
Mean commute (minutes)	23	21
Median year structure built	1998	2002