Pleasant Hill vs Windsor Heights

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

Pleasant Hill and Windsor Heights 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 5,171 in Windsor Heights). Windsor Heights has the higher median household income ($89,083 vs $86,890 in Pleasant Hill). Pleasant Hill has the higher median home value ($284,100 vs $251,800 in Windsor Heights).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
Population	10,796	5,171
Median age	41.1 yrs	41.5 yrs
Median household income	$86,890	$89,083
Median home value	$284,100	$251,800
Median gross rent	$1,204	$1,355
Housing units	4,320	2,327
Homeownership rate	75.8%	77.8%
Bachelor's degree or higher	32.2%	44.3%
Unemployment rate	7.5%	1.8%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
Population	9,871 → 10,796 (+9.4%)	4,953 → 5,171 (+4.4%)
Median household income	$78,818 → $86,890 (+10.2%)	$64,230 → $89,083 (+38.7%)
Median home value	$201,500 → $284,100 (+41.0%)	$186,700 → $251,800 (+34.9%)
Median gross rent	$1,002 → $1,204 (+20.2%)	$1,019 → $1,355 (+33.0%)

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

Windsor Heights

Population

4,9535,171

Median household income

$64,230$89,083

Median home value

$186,700$251,800

Median gross rent

$1,019$1,355

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
Under 5	8.1%	8.4%
5 to 17	18.1%	16.3%
18 to 24	6.6%	5.0%
25 to 34	10.9%	10.2%
35 to 44	13.1%	16.8%
45 to 54	9.4%	9.3%
55 to 64	12.4%	15.4%
65 to 74	14.2%	13.5%
75 and over	7.3%	5.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
White (non-Hispanic)	82.1%	79.2%
Black or African American	4.9%	6.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	3.6%	4.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.0%	0.9%
Hispanic or Latino	7.4%	9.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
No high school diploma	2.7%	1.9%
High school graduate	33.5%	22.0%
Some college or associate's	31.6%	31.8%
Bachelor's degree	22.8%	31.5%
Graduate or professional degree	9.3%	12.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
Drove alone	80.4%	73.0%
Carpooled	5.9%	5.1%
Public transit	0.1%	0.0%
Walked	2.1%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.4%	0.0%
Worked from home	10.5%	19.1%
Other means	0.6%	2.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
1-unit, detached	58.6%	78.9%
1-unit, attached	17.0%	11.0%
2 to 4 units	0.8%	3.4%
5 to 19 units	8.9%	1.8%
20 or more units	11.3%	4.8%
Mobile home & other	3.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Hill	Windsor Heights
Poverty rate	9.9%	6.9%
Average household size	2.64	2.49
Mean commute (minutes)	21	16
Median year structure built	2002	1959