Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$793 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Pennsylvania$1,507
- United States$1,922
Living in Pleasant Mount, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
The Census does not count Pleasant Mount on its own, so the figures here are Wayne County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,381 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Pleasant Mount is a small community in Wayne County, in northeastern Pennsylvania. Across Wayne County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is in middle age. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Across Wayne County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Many residents travel to work, so driving is a part of daily life.
Things to do. The West Branch Dyberry Creek, a river in or beside town, is the closest of the water spots. Prompton State Park, a protected area a short drive away, and Lower Woods Pond, a lake also a short drive off, offer other places to spend a day outdoors.
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- 20,877households
- 49.2median age
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Wayne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 15,764 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 69 inches of snow and 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pleasant Mount West weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wayne County
- Wayne Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital569FTE
- Wayne Highlands SDSchool district366FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters358
- Western Wayne SDSchool district283FTE
- Top Notch DistributorsKeys and locks merchant wholesalers261
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice173
- Pioneer Construction CompanyUtility line, construction150
- Weis MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery115
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,551 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Wayne County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Wayne County.
Pleasant Mount home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
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Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pleasant Mount11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
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Zip codes with a Pleasant Mount address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pleasant Mount — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.