Pleasant Hill vs Saylorville

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

Pleasant Hill and Saylorville 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 3,559 in Saylorville). Pleasant Hill has the higher median household income ($86,890 vs $80,250 in Saylorville). Saylorville has the higher median home value ($287,700 vs $284,100 in Pleasant Hill).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
Population	10,796	3,559
Median age	41.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
Median household income	$86,890	$80,250
Median home value	$284,100	$287,700
Median gross rent	$1,204	$1,642
Housing units	4,320	1,444
Homeownership rate	75.8%	83.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	32.2%	31.4%
Unemployment rate	7.5%	9.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
Population	9,871 → 10,796 (+9.4%)	4,009 → 3,559 (-11.2%)
Median household income	$78,818 → $86,890 (+10.2%)	$65,174 → $80,250 (+23.1%)
Median home value	$201,500 → $284,100 (+41.0%)	$210,000 → $287,700 (+37.0%)
Median gross rent	$1,002 → $1,204 (+20.2%)	$1,679 → $1,642 (-2.2%)

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

Saylorville

Population

4,0093,559

Median household income

$65,174$80,250

Median home value

$210,000$287,700

Median gross rent

$1,679$1,642

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
Under 5	8.1%	5.9%
5 to 17	18.1%	24.9%
18 to 24	6.6%	3.4%
25 to 34	10.9%	6.8%
35 to 44	13.1%	18.7%
45 to 54	9.4%	12.4%
55 to 64	12.4%	10.5%
65 to 74	14.2%	11.6%
75 and over	7.3%	5.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
White (non-Hispanic)	82.1%	79.0%
Black or African American	4.9%	16.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	3.6%	0.8%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.0%	3.1%
Hispanic or Latino	7.4%	1.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
No high school diploma	2.7%	1.5%
High school graduate	33.5%	27.2%
Some college or associate's	31.6%	39.9%
Bachelor's degree	22.8%	25.0%
Graduate or professional degree	9.3%	6.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
Drove alone	80.4%	72.4%
Carpooled	5.9%	9.7%
Public transit	0.1%	0.0%
Walked	2.1%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.4%	0.0%
Worked from home	10.5%	17.9%
Other means	0.6%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
1-unit, detached	58.6%	93.8%
1-unit, attached	17.0%	1.5%
2 to 4 units	0.8%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	8.9%	3.6%
20 or more units	11.3%	1.1%
Mobile home & other	3.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Hill	Saylorville
Poverty rate	9.9%	4.5%
Average household size	2.64	2.54
Mean commute (minutes)	21	19
Median year structure built	2002	1983