Pleasant Hills vs Pylesville

A side-by-side comparison of Pleasant Hills and Pylesville: population, income, housing, and more.

Pleasant Hills and Pylesville are places in Maryland. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pleasant Hills has the higher population (3,955 vs 806 in Pylesville). Pylesville has the higher median household income ($167,755 vs $143,068 in Pleasant Hills). Pylesville has the higher median home value ($572,600 vs $480,800 in Pleasant Hills).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
Population	3,955	806
Median age	46.6 yrs	38.9 yrs
Median household income	$143,068	$167,755
Median home value	$480,800	$572,600
Median gross rent	$2,635	—
Housing units	1,549	289
Homeownership rate	95.4%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	56.6%	22.2%
Unemployment rate	1.2%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
Population	3,821 → 3,955 (+3.5%)	1,084 → 806 (-25.6%)
Median household income	$109,318 → $143,068 (+30.9%)	$103,676 → $167,755 (+61.8%)
Median home value	$393,700 → $480,800 (+22.1%)	$449,100 → $572,600 (+27.5%)
Median gross rent	$2,273 → $2,635 (+15.9%)	—

Pleasant Hills

Population

3,8213,955

Median household income

$109,318$143,068

Median home value

$393,700$480,800

Median gross rent

$2,273$2,635

Pylesville

Population

1,084806

Median household income

$103,676$167,755

Median home value

$449,100$572,600

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
Under 5	3.1%	4.5%
5 to 17	18.8%	23.9%
18 to 24	5.0%	0.0%
25 to 34	4.4%	16.5%
35 to 44	16.9%	20.7%
45 to 54	13.1%	6.0%
55 to 64	14.2%	21.3%
65 to 74	14.2%	4.1%
75 and over	10.2%	3.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
White (non-Hispanic)	86.7%	95.3%
Black or African American	2.4%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	6.6%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.3%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.0%	4.7%
Hispanic or Latino	1.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
No high school diploma	2.7%	6.2%
High school graduate	14.4%	36.4%
Some college or associate's	26.3%	35.2%
Bachelor's degree	33.9%	15.6%
Graduate or professional degree	22.6%	6.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
Drove alone	74.7%	80.5%
Carpooled	5.5%	2.9%
Public transit	0.5%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	5.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	19.3%	11.5%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
1-unit, detached	85.5%	92.7%
1-unit, attached	13.9%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.6%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	7.3%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Hills	Pylesville
Poverty rate	2.1%	0.0%
Average household size	2.55	2.79
Mean commute (minutes)	37	33
Median year structure built	1988	1979