Dormont vs Pleasant Hills

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

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

Pleasant Hills has the higher population (8,418 vs 8,120 in Dormont). Pleasant Hills has the higher median household income ($97,177 vs $77,226 in Dormont). Pleasant Hills has the higher median home value ($235,500 vs $204,800 in Dormont).

Population, income & housing

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
Population	8,120	8,418
Median age	37.4 yrs	45.7 yrs
Median household income	$77,226	$97,177
Median home value	$204,800	$235,500
Median gross rent	$1,049	$1,224
Housing units	4,397	3,776
Homeownership rate	57.9%	80.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	48.8%	40.2%
Unemployment rate	5.5%	5.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
Population	8,373 → 8,120 (-3.0%)	8,113 → 8,418 (+3.8%)
Median household income	$64,688 → $77,226 (+19.4%)	$76,480 → $97,177 (+27.1%)
Median home value	$147,500 → $204,800 (+38.8%)	$166,900 → $235,500 (+41.1%)
Median gross rent	$860 → $1,049 (+22.0%)	$995 → $1,224 (+23.0%)

Dormont

Population

8,3738,120

Median household income

$64,688$77,226

Median home value

$147,500$204,800

Median gross rent

$860$1,049

Pleasant Hills

Population

8,1138,418

Median household income

$76,480$97,177

Median home value

$166,900$235,500

Median gross rent

$995$1,224

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
Under 5	5.0%	4.5%
5 to 17	12.4%	15.0%
18 to 24	6.2%	6.5%
25 to 34	21.0%	10.7%
35 to 44	16.9%	12.4%
45 to 54	11.6%	15.2%
55 to 64	11.4%	13.5%
65 to 74	10.9%	11.5%
75 and over	4.4%	10.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
White (non-Hispanic)	85.5%	85.4%
Black or African American	5.9%	5.9%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.2%
Asian	0.5%	3.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	1.4%	0.5%
Two or more races	2.6%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	4.1%	1.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
No high school diploma	3.7%	5.0%
High school graduate	21.9%	23.6%
Some college or associate's	25.6%	31.2%
Bachelor's degree	32.8%	23.8%
Graduate or professional degree	16.0%	16.4%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
Drove alone	52.8%	63.1%
Carpooled	8.5%	14.2%
Public transit	11.0%	2.4%
Walked	3.3%	0.5%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	23.7%	19.4%
Other means	0.7%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
1-unit, detached	57.4%	79.7%
1-unit, attached	7.7%	2.2%
2 to 4 units	21.1%	5.2%
5 to 19 units	12.1%	1.9%
20 or more units	1.6%	11.0%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Dormont	Pleasant Hills
Poverty rate	8.4%	3.0%
Average household size	2.03	2.39
Mean commute (minutes)	26	26
Median year structure built	1938	1957