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Pleasant Plains village, Illinois: commercial real estate data.
Pleasant Plains village is a Census village of 886 people across 1.34 square miles of land, in Sangamon County. Median household income is $89,643, 83.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 2 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $117,400.
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Pleasant Plains
What Pleasant Plains is
- Census place typevillage
- Land area1.34 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land664
- County holding the largest share of its areaSangamon County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pleasant Plains
How many people live in Pleasant Plains
- Population886
- Median age33.8
- Population under 18241 plus or minus 55
- Share under 1827.2 percent
- Population 65 and over148 plus or minus 39
- Share 65 and over16.7 percent
- Households350
- Family households235
- Share of households that are families67.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pleasant Plains
Income and work in Pleasant Plains
- Median household income$89,643
- Per capita income$37,616
- Civilian labor force477 plus or minus 102
- Employed457 plus or minus 99
- Unemployed20 plus or minus 16
- Unemployment rate4.2 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Adults 25 and over586
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.3 percent plus or minus 21.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher25.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.0 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pleasant Plains
Housing in Pleasant Plains
- Housing units388
- Occupied units350
- Vacant units38 plus or minus 25
- Vacancy rate9.8 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Owner occupied292
- Renter occupied58 plus or minus 30
- Ownership rate83.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$169,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,079
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.4 percent
- Single family units354
- Share single family91.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more21 plus or minus 20
- Share in buildings of two or more5.4 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Mobile homes13 plus or minus 14
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pleasant Plains
How Pleasant Plains gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute430 plus or minus 96
- Commuting under 15 minutes87 plus or minus 34
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.2 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more164 plus or minus 46
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.1 percent
- Drove alone74.2 percent
- Carpooled11.0 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked3.7 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Worked from home5.3 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Pleasant Plains
SBA loans in Pleasant Plains (7(a))
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$117,400
- Average approval$58,700
- Median approval$104,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$104,000
- Largest approval$104,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval3.5
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Paid in full1
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders2
- Distinct industries by NAICS2
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Pleasant Plains
Flood risk in Pleasant Plains
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number170798
- Currently effective map date08/02/07
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Sangamon County, not Pleasant Plains
Sangamon County context, not Pleasant Plains figures
These are Sangamon County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Pleasant Plains measurements.
- Establishments in Sangamon County4,925
- Employment at those establishments, Sangamon County80,005
- Covered employment, Sangamon County134,376
- Average annual pay, Sangamon County$69,350
- Average weekly wage, Sangamon County$1,334
- Housing units permitted, Sangamon County191
- Of those, single family, Sangamon County123
- County product, 2024, Sangamon County$15,668,703,000
- County product change over the prior year, Sangamon County7.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Sangamon County$58,644
Every figure in this section is published for Sangamon County as a whole and is not a measurement of Pleasant Plains. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Pleasant Plains questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Pleasant Plains, Illinois?
886, in 350 households. Pleasant Plains village covers 1.34 square miles of land, which is 664 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Pleasant Plains in?
Sangamon County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Pleasant Plains?
$89,643. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $169,000. Median gross rent is $1,079 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Pleasant Plains businesses?
2 7(a) approvals totalling $117,400, across 2 lenders, median approval $104,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Pleasant Plains, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Pleasant Plains borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Pleasant Plains. only 1 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Pleasant Plains in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Pleasant Plains appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 170798, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Pleasant Plains figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Sangamon County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Pleasant Plains.
Is zoning published for Pleasant Plains?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.