Pleasant Plains vs Pluckemin

A side-by-side comparison of Pleasant Plains and Pluckemin: population, income, housing, and more.

Pleasant Plains and Pluckemin are places in New Jersey. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pleasant Plains has the higher population (536 vs 490 in Pluckemin). Pluckemin has the higher median home value ($598,200 vs $576,100 in Pleasant Plains). Since 2019, Pluckemin's population has grown faster (+26.0% vs -0.7%).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
Population	536	490
Median age	50.4 yrs	46.3 yrs
Median household income	—	$51,863
Median home value	$576,100	$598,200
Housing units	183	197
Homeownership rate	90.7%	100.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	49.7%	99.3%
Unemployment rate	10.3%	5.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
Population	540 → 536 (-0.7%)	389 → 490 (+26.0%)
Median household income	$209,583 → $225,809 (+7.7%)	$44,203 → $51,863 (+17.3%)
Median home value	$515,400 → $576,100 (+11.8%)	$578,900 → $598,200 (+3.3%)

Pleasant Plains

Population

540536

Median household income

$209,583$225,809

Median home value

$515,400$576,100

Pluckemin

Population

389490

Median household income

$44,203$51,863

Median home value

$578,900$598,200

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
Under 5	2.4%	0.0%
5 to 17	14.2%	38.2%
18 to 24	16.6%	2.9%
25 to 34	0.0%	5.1%
35 to 44	9.1%	3.1%
45 to 54	17.2%	10.6%
55 to 64	11.6%	24.3%
65 to 74	21.6%	5.1%
75 and over	7.3%	10.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
White (non-Hispanic)	46.8%	97.6%
Black or African American	21.1%	0.2%
American Indian & Alaska Native	5.2%	0.0%
Asian	24.8%	2.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	0.0%
Hispanic or Latino	2.1%	0.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
No high school diploma	0.0%	0.0%
High school graduate	39.4%	0.7%
Some college or associate's	10.9%	0.0%
Bachelor's degree	32.1%	42.6%
Graduate or professional degree	17.6%	56.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
Drove alone	49.6%	71.6%
Carpooled	6.1%	0.0%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	11.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	44.3%	17.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
1-unit, detached	100.0%	71.1%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	28.9%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Plains	Pluckemin
Poverty rate	0.0%	47.6%
Average household size	2.93	2.47
Mean commute (minutes)	45	20
Median year structure built	1990	1996