Mount Pleasant is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,871 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mount Pleasant is the 121st largest community in Tennessee.When you are in Mount Pleasant, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.06% of Mount Pleasant’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Pleasant is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Pleasant who work in office and administrative support (14.77%), sales jobs (12.89%), and healthcare (10.88%). The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mount Pleasant has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Pleasant a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Mount Pleasant is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The rate of college-level education in Mount Pleasant is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.13% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Mount Pleasant in 2022 was $30,989, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,956 for a family of four. However, Mount Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Pleasant is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Pleasant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Pleasant residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Pleasant include English, Irish, German, French, and African. The most common language spoken in Mount Pleasant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
