Mount Pleasant is a medium-sized city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 20,859 people and 13 associated neighborhoods, Mount Pleasant is the 64th largest community in Michigan.Unlike some cities, Mount Pleasant isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Pleasant are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Pleasant is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Pleasant who work in food service (15.33%), teaching (10.78%), and office and administrative support (10.53%). In addition, Mount Pleasant is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Mount Pleasant culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Mount Pleasant really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Mount Pleasant every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Mount Pleasant. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Mount Pleasant benefits directly from this. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.36 minutes getting to work every day.The citizens of Mount Pleasant are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.25% of adults in Mount Pleasant have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mount Pleasant in 2022 was $23,962, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,848 for a family of four. However, Mount Pleasant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mount Pleasant also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.Mount Pleasant is a somewhat 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 German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Mount Pleasant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
