Pleasant Garden vs Stokesdale

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

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

Stokesdale has the higher population (5,943 vs 4,989 in Pleasant Garden). Stokesdale has the higher median household income ($135,389 vs $88,482 in Pleasant Garden). Stokesdale has the higher median home value ($368,600 vs $212,700 in Pleasant Garden).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
Population	4,989	5,943
Median age	38.6 yrs	43.0 yrs
Median household income	$88,482	$135,389
Median home value	$212,700	$368,600
Median gross rent	$1,114	$783
Housing units	2,244	1,969
Homeownership rate	79.3%	94.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher	30.8%	41.0%
Unemployment rate	1.6%	0.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
Population	4,837 → 4,989 (+3.1%)	5,396 → 5,943 (+10.1%)
Median household income	$65,614 → $88,482 (+34.9%)	$84,583 → $135,389 (+60.1%)
Median home value	$171,700 → $212,700 (+23.9%)	$205,400 → $368,600 (+79.5%)
Median gross rent	$806 → $1,114 (+38.2%)	$895 → $783 (-12.5%)

Pleasant Garden

Population

4,8374,989

Median household income

$65,614$88,482

Median home value

$171,700$212,700

Median gross rent

$806$1,114

Stokesdale

Population

5,3965,943

Median household income

$84,583$135,389

Median home value

$205,400$368,600

Median gross rent

$895$783

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
Under 5	6.0%	4.5%
5 to 17	16.6%	22.5%
18 to 24	8.0%	7.6%
25 to 34	17.9%	4.6%
35 to 44	6.4%	17.1%
45 to 54	10.2%	14.5%
55 to 64	15.6%	17.7%
65 to 74	12.1%	8.3%
75 and over	7.3%	3.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
White (non-Hispanic)	77.6%	69.2%
Black or African American	14.1%	9.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.3%	1.9%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.8%	6.0%
Hispanic or Latino	2.3%	13.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
No high school diploma	4.0%	2.0%
High school graduate	26.5%	24.8%
Some college or associate's	38.7%	32.2%
Bachelor's degree	22.0%	26.7%
Graduate or professional degree	8.8%	14.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
Drove alone	81.0%	70.7%
Carpooled	5.3%	4.8%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.1%	4.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	11.7%	18.2%
Other means	1.8%	2.3%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
1-unit, detached	85.5%	91.5%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	4.2%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	1.4%
Mobile home & other	14.5%	2.8%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Garden	Stokesdale
Poverty rate	9.5%	7.6%
Average household size	2.39	3.01
Mean commute (minutes)	28	27
Median year structure built	1979	2002