Pleasant Hill vs Polk City

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

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

Pleasant Hill has the higher population (10,796 vs 5,833 in Polk City). Polk City has the higher median household income ($163,000 vs $86,890 in Pleasant Hill). Polk City has the higher median home value ($385,000 vs $284,100 in Pleasant Hill).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
Population	10,796	5,833
Median age	41.1 yrs	37.0 yrs
Median household income	$86,890	$163,000
Median home value	$284,100	$385,000
Median gross rent	$1,204	$746
Housing units	4,320	2,059
Homeownership rate	75.8%	90.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	32.2%	47.2%
Unemployment rate	7.5%	2.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
Population	9,871 → 10,796 (+9.4%)	4,625 → 5,833 (+26.1%)
Median household income	$78,818 → $86,890 (+10.2%)	$104,750 → $163,000 (+55.6%)
Median home value	$201,500 → $284,100 (+41.0%)	$249,000 → $385,000 (+54.6%)
Median gross rent	$1,002 → $1,204 (+20.2%)	$1,152 → $746 (-35.2%)

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

Polk City

Population

4,6255,833

Median household income

$104,750$163,000

Median home value

$249,000$385,000

Median gross rent

$1,152$746

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
Under 5	8.1%	4.9%
5 to 17	18.1%	24.7%
18 to 24	6.6%	3.8%
25 to 34	10.9%	12.4%
35 to 44	13.1%	15.7%
45 to 54	9.4%	16.6%
55 to 64	12.4%	11.7%
65 to 74	14.2%	7.9%
75 and over	7.3%	2.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
White (non-Hispanic)	82.1%	96.3%
Black or African American	4.9%	0.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	3.6%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.0%	1.2%
Hispanic or Latino	7.4%	2.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
No high school diploma	2.7%	1.9%
High school graduate	33.5%	18.0%
Some college or associate's	31.6%	32.9%
Bachelor's degree	22.8%	30.5%
Graduate or professional degree	9.3%	16.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
Drove alone	80.4%	79.5%
Carpooled	5.9%	3.0%
Public transit	0.1%	0.0%
Walked	2.1%	0.4%
Bicycle	0.4%	0.0%
Worked from home	10.5%	17.1%
Other means	0.6%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
1-unit, detached	58.6%	79.2%
1-unit, attached	17.0%	12.9%
2 to 4 units	0.8%	5.4%
5 to 19 units	8.9%	0.0%
20 or more units	11.3%	2.5%
Mobile home & other	3.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Hill	Polk City
Poverty rate	9.9%	5.5%
Average household size	2.64	2.84
Mean commute (minutes)	21	25
Median year structure built	2002	2006