Fordsville vs Pleasant Ridge

A side-by-side comparison of Fordsville and Pleasant Ridge: population, income, housing, and more.

Fordsville and Pleasant Ridge are places in Kentucky. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pleasant Ridge has the higher population (729 vs 488 in Fordsville). Pleasant Ridge has the higher median household income ($41,615 vs $33,750 in Fordsville). Pleasant Ridge has the higher median home value ($104,500 vs $50,000 in Fordsville).

Population, income & housing

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
Population	488	729
Median age	35.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
Median household income	$33,750	$41,615
Median home value	$50,000	$104,500
Median gross rent	$438	$996
Housing units	196	372
Homeownership rate	65.2%	81.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.0%	8.9%
Unemployment rate	1.2%	4.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
Population	552 → 488 (-11.6%)	634 → 729 (+15.0%)
Median household income	$33,625 → $33,750 (+0.4%)	$38,750 → $41,615 (+7.4%)
Median home value	$57,900 → $50,000 (-13.6%)	$90,100 → $104,500 (+16.0%)
Median gross rent	$528 → $438 (-17.0%)	$687 → $996 (+45.0%)

Fordsville

Population

552488

Median household income

$33,625$33,750

Median home value

$57,900$50,000

Median gross rent

$528$438

Pleasant Ridge

Population

634729

Median household income

$38,750$41,615

Median home value

$90,100$104,500

Median gross rent

$687$996

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
Under 5	2.7%	5.3%
5 to 17	6.4%	10.8%
18 to 24	32.2%	3.3%
25 to 34	8.8%	8.2%
35 to 44	7.0%	16.0%
45 to 54	8.8%	14.1%
55 to 64	11.5%	11.4%
65 to 74	15.0%	27.0%
75 and over	7.8%	3.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
White (non-Hispanic)	67.6%	91.1%
Black or African American	30.9%	3.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.4%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.4%	2.5%
Two or more races	0.4%	2.3%
Hispanic or Latino	0.6%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
No high school diploma	20.2%	16.9%
High school graduate	43.9%	46.3%
Some college or associate's	28.9%	27.9%
Bachelor's degree	5.6%	3.9%
Graduate or professional degree	1.4%	4.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
Drove alone	89.3%	69.3%
Carpooled	8.3%	19.5%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	2.5%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	11.1%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
1-unit, detached	66.8%	84.1%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	3.1%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	30.1%	15.9%

Poverty & households

	Fordsville	Pleasant Ridge
Poverty rate	20.3%	21.0%
Average household size	3.16	2.16
Mean commute (minutes)	29	40
Median year structure built	1977	1975