Pleasant Valley vs Rivesville

A side-by-side comparison of Pleasant Valley and Rivesville: population, income, housing, and more.

Pleasant Valley and Rivesville are places in West Virginia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Pleasant Valley has the higher population (3,494 vs 701 in Rivesville). Rivesville has the higher median household income ($61,678 vs $58,456 in Pleasant Valley). Pleasant Valley has the higher median home value ($208,500 vs $132,400 in Rivesville).

Population, income & housing

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
Population	3,494	701
Median age	39.8 yrs	48.4 yrs
Median household income	$58,456	$61,678
Median home value	$208,500	$132,400
Median gross rent	$954	$840
Housing units	1,648	345
Homeownership rate	72.9%	73.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	35.0%	11.4%
Unemployment rate	2.0%	3.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
Population	3,157 → 3,494 (+10.7%)	998 → 701 (-29.8%)
Median household income	$51,507 → $58,456 (+13.5%)	$51,346 → $61,678 (+20.1%)
Median home value	$153,400 → $208,500 (+35.9%)	$111,900 → $132,400 (+18.3%)
Median gross rent	$570 → $954 (+67.4%)	$738 → $840 (+13.8%)

Pleasant Valley

Population

3,1573,494

Median household income

$51,507$58,456

Median home value

$153,400$208,500

Median gross rent

$570$954

Rivesville

Population

998701

Median household income

$51,346$61,678

Median home value

$111,900$132,400

Median gross rent

$738$840

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
Under 5	4.5%	3.1%
5 to 17	17.6%	10.6%
18 to 24	10.4%	14.0%
25 to 34	11.0%	12.1%
35 to 44	12.4%	8.1%
45 to 54	15.8%	6.1%
55 to 64	9.0%	19.4%
65 to 74	10.7%	13.7%
75 and over	8.4%	12.8%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
White (non-Hispanic)	89.7%	87.9%
Black or African American	2.2%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.6%	1.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.2%	6.7%
Hispanic or Latino	2.4%	4.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
No high school diploma	11.4%	7.9%
High school graduate	31.4%	50.3%
Some college or associate's	22.2%	30.4%
Bachelor's degree	18.4%	6.3%
Graduate or professional degree	16.6%	5.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
Drove alone	86.1%	78.0%
Carpooled	2.3%	16.2%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	11.7%	4.4%
Other means	0.0%	1.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
1-unit, detached	72.7%	92.8%
1-unit, attached	2.6%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	8.3%	0.9%
5 to 19 units	13.2%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.8%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	2.4%	6.4%

Poverty & households

	Pleasant Valley	Rivesville
Poverty rate	9.7%	14.4%
Average household size	2.28	2.28
Mean commute (minutes)	20	29
Median year structure built	1972	1963