Fair Play vs Pleasant Hope

A side-by-side comparison of Fair Play and Pleasant Hope: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Pleasant Hope has the higher population (679 vs 470 in Fair Play). Pleasant Hope has the higher median household income ($61,607 vs $37,125 in Fair Play). Pleasant Hope has the higher median home value ($142,500 vs $73,800 in Fair Play).

Population, income & housing

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
Population	470	679
Median age	46.8 yrs	37.3 yrs
Median household income	$37,125	$61,607
Median home value	$73,800	$142,500
Median gross rent	$938	$875
Housing units	246	279
Homeownership rate	50.2%	67.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	6.9%	14.1%
Unemployment rate	9.8%	0.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
Population	425 → 470 (+10.6%)	662 → 679 (+2.6%)
Median household income	$28,661 → $37,125 (+29.5%)	$39,276 → $61,607 (+56.9%)
Median home value	$47,800 → $73,800 (+54.4%)	$106,300 → $142,500 (+34.1%)
Median gross rent	$763 → $938 (+22.9%)	$770 → $875 (+13.6%)

Fair Play

Population

425470

Median household income

$28,661$37,125

Median home value

$47,800$73,800

Median gross rent

$763$938

Pleasant Hope

Population

662679

Median household income

$39,276$61,607

Median home value

$106,300$142,500

Median gross rent

$770$875

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
Under 5	5.7%	3.5%
5 to 17	15.5%	22.7%
18 to 24	13.6%	4.9%
25 to 34	5.3%	13.1%
35 to 44	5.5%	19.0%
45 to 54	26.4%	16.6%
55 to 64	14.7%	11.8%
65 to 74	4.7%	4.7%
75 and over	8.5%	3.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
White (non-Hispanic)	98.3%	92.5%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	1.7%	7.5%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
No high school diploma	16.3%	10.7%
High school graduate	52.0%	37.4%
Some college or associate's	24.8%	37.8%
Bachelor's degree	3.3%	10.9%
Graduate or professional degree	3.6%	3.2%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
Drove alone	86.9%	73.2%
Carpooled	12.0%	20.6%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	1.1%	5.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
1-unit, detached	65.4%	78.9%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.7%
2 to 4 units	19.9%	15.4%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	2.2%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	14.6%	2.9%

Poverty & households

	Fair Play	Pleasant Hope
Poverty rate	29.1%	19.3%
Average household size	2.34	2.49
Mean commute (minutes)	31	30
Median year structure built	1965	1989