Garden City vs Pleasant Hill

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

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

Pleasant Hill has the higher population (8,853 vs 1,539 in Garden City). Pleasant Hill has the higher median household income ($94,840 vs $63,625 in Garden City). Pleasant Hill has the higher median home value ($245,400 vs $165,200 in Garden City).

Population, income & housing

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
Population	1,539	8,853
Median age	36.3 yrs	35.6 yrs
Median household income	$63,625	$94,840
Median home value	$165,200	$245,400
Median gross rent	$863	$1,139
Housing units	691	3,546
Homeownership rate	65.8%	73.2%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.0%	28.7%
Unemployment rate	4.1%	6.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
Population	1,345 → 1,539 (+14.4%)	8,510 → 8,853 (+4.0%)
Median household income	$52,333 → $63,625 (+21.6%)	$70,728 → $94,840 (+34.1%)
Median home value	$102,300 → $165,200 (+61.5%)	$178,300 → $245,400 (+37.6%)
Median gross rent	$725 → $863 (+19.0%)	$976 → $1,139 (+16.7%)

Garden City

Population

1,3451,539

Median household income

$52,333$63,625

Median home value

$102,300$165,200

Median gross rent

$725$863

Pleasant Hill

Population

8,5108,853

Median household income

$70,728$94,840

Median home value

$178,300$245,400

Median gross rent

$976$1,139

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
Under 5	4.1%	4.1%
5 to 17	25.1%	19.1%
18 to 24	4.8%	11.9%
25 to 34	11.9%	14.4%
35 to 44	12.6%	11.2%
45 to 54	12.7%	14.9%
55 to 64	10.7%	7.6%
65 to 74	8.4%	6.9%
75 and over	9.7%	9.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	88.5%	90.4%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.1%
Some other race	1.2%	0.0%
Two or more races	7.5%	3.5%
Hispanic or Latino	2.8%	5.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
No high school diploma	8.1%	5.4%
High school graduate	53.1%	36.1%
Some college or associate's	30.9%	29.8%
Bachelor's degree	7.4%	14.5%
Graduate or professional degree	0.6%	14.2%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
Drove alone	83.9%	77.9%
Carpooled	12.6%	13.4%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	3.5%	8.3%
Other means	0.0%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
1-unit, detached	79.9%	82.9%
1-unit, attached	4.1%	8.9%
2 to 4 units	7.2%	4.9%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	1.2%
20 or more units	0.9%	0.5%
Mobile home & other	8.0%	1.6%

Poverty & households

	Garden City	Pleasant Hill
Poverty rate	3.5%	5.7%
Average household size	2.61	2.59
Mean commute (minutes)	30	34
Median year structure built	1982	1993