Pleasant Hill, Iowa

Pleasant Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Pleasant Hill added 1,777 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +17.5%. In the latest year it moved by +312. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Pleasant Hill is 1.3 times that size.

Pleasant Hill covers 10.80 square miles of land and 0.39 of water, for 1,106 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Pleasant Hill is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pleasant Hill is in

All of Pleasant Hill's residents live in Polk County, which had 516,185 residents in 2024. Pleasant Hill holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pleasant Hill

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pleasant Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50327. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Pleasant Hill is

The Census internal point of Pleasant Hill is at 41.599100, -93.505000. Des Moines, the capital, is 5.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Altoona, IA (22,598 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Des Moines, IA, 5.7 miles away.

Daylight in Pleasant Hill

At 41.60° N, Pleasant Hill gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pleasant Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Altoona, 3.8 miles away, with 22,598 people.