Fort Jesup vs Pleasant Hill

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

Fort Jesup 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 395 in Fort Jesup). Since 2019, Pleasant Hill's population has grown faster (+7.2% vs -4.4%).

Population, income & housing

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
Population	395	628
Median age	27.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
Median household income	—	$22,083
Median gross rent	—	$579
Housing units	187	380
Homeownership rate	86.1%	59.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	30.1%	16.5%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	18.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
Population	413 → 395 (-4.4%)	586 → 628 (+7.2%)
Median household income	—	$20,368 → $22,083 (+8.4%)
Median gross rent	—	$450 → $579 (+28.7%)

Fort Jesup

Population

413395

Pleasant Hill

Population

586628

Median household income

$20,368$22,083

Median gross rent

$450$579

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
Under 5	5.6%	9.4%
5 to 17	21.5%	15.9%
18 to 24	10.6%	12.9%
25 to 34	14.2%	8.1%
35 to 44	0.0%	7.2%
45 to 54	5.6%	11.1%
55 to 64	23.8%	22.1%
65 to 74	18.7%	8.1%
75 and over	0.0%	5.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	86.1%	31.5%
Black or African American	13.9%	45.1%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.5%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	21.7%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	1.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
No high school diploma	0.0%	9.0%
High school graduate	45.1%	39.2%
Some college or associate's	24.8%	35.3%
Bachelor's degree	0.0%	11.1%
Graduate or professional degree	30.1%	5.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
Drove alone	70.1%	70.3%
Carpooled	29.9%	20.9%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	0.0%
Other means	0.0%	8.8%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
1-unit, detached	24.6%	44.7%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.8%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	7.9%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	4.2%
Mobile home & other	75.4%	42.4%

Poverty & households

	Fort Jesup	Pleasant Hill
Poverty rate	32.7%	37.4%
Average household size	2.11	2.27
Mean commute (minutes)	—	29
Median year structure built	2003	1977