Grimes vs Pleasant Hill

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

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

Grimes has the higher population (15,810 vs 10,796 in Pleasant Hill). Grimes has the higher median household income ($104,497 vs $86,890 in Pleasant Hill). Pleasant Hill has the higher median home value ($284,100 vs $281,000 in Grimes).

Population, income & housing

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
Population	15,810	10,796
Median age	34.3 yrs	41.1 yrs
Median household income	$104,497	$86,890
Median home value	$281,000	$284,100
Median gross rent	$1,156	$1,204
Housing units	6,209	4,320
Homeownership rate	70.0%	75.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	47.6%	32.2%
Unemployment rate	6.3%	7.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
Population	12,839 → 15,810 (+23.1%)	9,871 → 10,796 (+9.4%)
Median household income	$81,950 → $104,497 (+27.5%)	$78,818 → $86,890 (+10.2%)
Median home value	$225,800 → $281,000 (+24.4%)	$201,500 → $284,100 (+41.0%)
Median gross rent	$1,002 → $1,156 (+15.4%)	$1,002 → $1,204 (+20.2%)

Grimes

Population

12,83915,810

Median household income

$81,950$104,497

Median home value

$225,800$281,000

Median gross rent

$1,002$1,156

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)

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
Under 5	6.3%	8.1%
5 to 17	21.3%	18.1%
18 to 24	8.7%	6.6%
25 to 34	14.1%	10.9%
35 to 44	19.3%	13.1%
45 to 54	12.5%	9.4%
55 to 64	9.7%	12.4%
65 to 74	5.3%	14.2%
75 and over	2.8%	7.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	85.0%	82.1%
Black or African American	2.3%	4.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	3.6%	3.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.7%	2.0%
Hispanic or Latino	6.5%	7.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
No high school diploma	0.8%	2.7%
High school graduate	27.1%	33.5%
Some college or associate's	24.6%	31.6%
Bachelor's degree	31.4%	22.8%
Graduate or professional degree	16.2%	9.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
Drove alone	66.8%	80.4%
Carpooled	7.5%	5.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.1%
Walked	1.0%	2.1%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.4%
Worked from home	24.5%	10.5%
Other means	0.3%	0.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
1-unit, detached	60.6%	58.6%
1-unit, attached	8.9%	17.0%
2 to 4 units	1.3%	0.8%
5 to 19 units	13.5%	8.9%
20 or more units	10.6%	11.3%
Mobile home & other	5.1%	3.4%

Poverty & households

	Grimes	Pleasant Hill
Poverty rate	6.8%	9.9%
Average household size	2.57	2.64
Mean commute (minutes)	19	21
Median year structure built	2008	2002