Converse vs Pleasant Hill

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

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

Pleasant Hill has the higher population (628 vs 406 in Converse). Converse has the higher median household income ($64,750 vs $22,083 in Pleasant Hill). Since 2019, Converse's population has grown faster (+26.5% vs +7.2%).

Population, income & housing

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
Population	406	628
Median age	39.6 yrs	37.8 yrs
Median household income	$64,750	$22,083
Median home value	$75,000	—
Median gross rent	$638	$579
Housing units	208	380
Homeownership rate	73.0%	59.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.3%	16.5%
Unemployment rate	4.3%	18.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
Population	321 → 406 (+26.5%)	586 → 628 (+7.2%)
Median household income	$43,750 → $64,750 (+48.0%)	$20,368 → $22,083 (+8.4%)
Median home value	$55,000 → $75,000 (+36.4%)	—
Median gross rent	$433 → $638 (+47.3%)	$450 → $579 (+28.7%)

Converse

Population

321406

Median household income

$43,750$64,750

Median home value

$55,000$75,000

Median gross rent

$433$638

Pleasant Hill

Population

586628

Median household income

$20,368$22,083

Median gross rent

$450$579

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
Under 5	5.9%	9.4%
5 to 17	16.3%	15.9%
18 to 24	11.3%	12.9%
25 to 34	12.3%	8.1%
35 to 44	7.4%	7.2%
45 to 54	13.5%	11.1%
55 to 64	14.3%	22.1%
65 to 74	11.3%	8.1%
75 and over	7.6%	5.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	70.2%	31.5%
Black or African American	3.4%	45.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	5.2%	0.5%
Asian	3.9%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	8.9%	21.7%
Hispanic or Latino	8.4%	1.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
No high school diploma	21.1%	9.0%
High school graduate	44.8%	39.2%
Some college or associate's	17.8%	35.3%
Bachelor's degree	14.4%	11.1%
Graduate or professional degree	1.9%	5.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
Drove alone	85.2%	70.3%
Carpooled	11.0%	20.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	3.9%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	8.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
1-unit, detached	41.8%	44.7%
1-unit, attached	0.5%	0.8%
2 to 4 units	8.2%	7.9%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	4.2%
Mobile home & other	49.5%	42.4%

Poverty & households

	Converse	Pleasant Hill
Poverty rate	16.0%	37.4%
Average household size	2.49	2.27
Mean commute (minutes)	31	29
Median year structure built	1991	1977