City · Maury County, Tennessee

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee

Mount Pleasant is a city in Maury County, Tennessee, part of the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area. It has 4,837 residents. Mount Pleasant, Tennessee has a quality-of-life score of 22 out of 100 (low), ranking #12,255 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Tennessee it ranks #154 of 305 cities and towns. It ranks best on median Air Quality Index (low), effective property tax rate (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on depression (high), frequent mental distress (high) and job growth (low).

22Low

Quality-of-life score: #12,255 of 15,651 cities and towns
Tennessee: #154 of 305 in TN
Population: 4,837 (2020-2024)
Land area: 13 mi²
Density: 384.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 4751080

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety30#11,002/15,637
Economy22#12,143/15,631
Housing65#5,223/14,977
Health15#13,280/15,609
Healthcare35#10,125/15,650
Environment83#2,558/15,453
Education9#14,243/15,649
Infrastructure15#13,246/15,650
Community29#11,048/15,651
Leisure & amenities28#11,230/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Mount Pleasant, Tennessee ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Maury County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Median Air Quality Index · low33
91/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMaury County value
Effective property tax rate · low0.45%
91/100Tennessee 0.52%United States 0.94%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25090
Child care cost burden · low22.5%
86/100Tennessee 22.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaury County value
Drinking water violations · low0
86/100Tennessee 0United States 02024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaury County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMaury County value
Dental care shortage · low0.0
84/100Tennessee 9.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMaury County value

Weaknesses

Depression · high30.1%
4/100Tennessee 29.0%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Frequent mental distress · high22.3%
4/100Tennessee 22.0%United States 18.6%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Job growth · low-3.2%
6/100Tennessee -0.2%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMaury County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low10.1%
7/100Tennessee 31.1%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Reading scores · low2.66
7/100Tennessee 2.99United States 3.052019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaury County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high121 mi
7/100Tennessee 93 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMaury County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

New homes permittedImproving
3.0 /1k (2021) → 5.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+75%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
75.2% (2015-2019) → 89.6% (2020-2024)
+14 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 4.9× (2020-2024)
+70%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
19.5% (2015-2019) → 30.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
21.0% (2015-2019) → 10.1% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Unemployment rateImproving
14.1% (2015-2019) → 3.8% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee improved on 3 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 2. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved3

Property tax−0.4 points0.89% → 0.45%
Broadband+14 points75.2% → 89.6%
Household income+33%$37,578 → $50,108

Declined2

Bachelor's+−11 points21.0% → 10.1%
Price / income+2.0×2.9× → 4.9×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.5 min2015-2019	26.4 min2020-2024	−0.1 min	Within the margin of error	49%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.0%2015-2019	10.1%2020-2024	−11 points	Declined	1%
Broadband subscriptions	75.2%2015-2019	89.6%2020-2024	+14 points	Improved	78%
Child poverty rate	19.5%2015-2019	30.5%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	11%
Effective property tax rate	0.89%2015-2019	0.45%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Improved	87%
High school diploma or higher	88.2%2015-2019	92.2%2020-2024	+4 points	Within the margin of error	76%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	4.9×2020-2024	+2.0×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4872015-2019	0.4912020-2024	+0.004	Within the margin of error	47%
Median household income	$37,5782015-2019	$50,1082020-2024	+33%	Improved	62%
Poverty rate	17.9%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	13%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	27.0%2015-2019	28.4%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	10.8%2015-2019	9.8%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	58%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Mount Pleasant, Tennessee five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee itself moved −2.2 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

4,837 residents (±23)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

2,316 households (±270)

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Under $25k33%†766
$25k–50k17%†385
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

2,316 households (±270)

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Own62%1,425
Rent38%†891

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,216 workers (±281)

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee
Tennessee share

Drive alone87%1,919
Carpool8.5%†189
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Maury County, the county holding most of Mount Pleasant's residents.

Maury County has 2,069 employer establishments, 186 for every 10,000 residents (0.75× the US rate of 248; 0.89× Tennessee's), with 33,755 paid employees at an average annual pay of $55,418. The Census Bureau also counts 11,034 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,069; 11,034 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 186; US 248 · Tennessee 210
Paid employees: 33,755
Average annual pay: $55,418; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Maury County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	176	15.9	0.86×About typical	3,936	$20,338	34
Ambulatory health care services	169	15.2	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,596	$73,987	394
Specialty trade contractors	155	14	0.90×About typical	1,645	$62,903	935
Religious organizations	90	8.1	1.46×More than typical	610	$29,028	—
Limited-service restaurants	85	7.7	0.95×About typical	1,785	$19,646	15
Services to buildings and dwellings	78	7	1.04×About typical	492	$43,705	730
Lessors of real estate	72	6.5	0.53×Fewer than typical	193	$46,264	823
Construction of buildings	65	5.9	0.77×Fewer than typical	244	$59,299	374
Offices of physicians	62	5.6	0.86×About typical	629	$102,428	83
Full-service restaurants	61	5.5	0.72×Fewer than typical	1,826	$21,300	11
Building equipment contractors	58	5.2	0.87×About typical	507	$67,091	162
Automotive repair and maintenance	56	5	1.00×About typical	301	$48,322	122

Rank places for an industry Open Maury County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 111,022 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $115.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee: $23.91 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $115.7K; −1% vs FY2025
Per resident: $23.91; US $1,994
Sole-source: 4.1%; US 30%
Single offer: 9.5%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Department of Veterans Affairs$80.6K70%
Defense Logistics Agency$18K16%
Public Buildings Service$9,2868.0%
U.S. Coast Guard$3,4613.0%
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$2,2882.0%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$1,2151.1%
Department of the Air Force$7650.7%
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acquisition and Property Management Division$98.210.1%

Top recipients

VALOR HEALTHCARE INC$73.7K64%
WIREMASTERS, INC.$22.2K19%
CONCOURSE FEDERAL GROUP LLC$6,5695.7%
CHITINA DIVERSIFIED SERVICES, LLC$4,0343.5%
K PAYNE CONTRACTING LLC$2,9922.6%

Spending by fiscal year

592.8KFY2017
-80.7KFY2018
29.7KFY2019
58.7KFY2020
72.4KFY2021
79.8KFY2022
106.6KFY2023
22.7KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Outpatient care centers · 6214$73.7K64%
Cutlery and handtool manufacturing · 3322$7,5826.6%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$6,5695.7%
Nonresidential building construction · 2362$4,0343.5%
Alumina and aluminum production and processing · 3313$3,6403.1%
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing · 3364

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, so they do not add up across cities.

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee's figures are part of those of Maury County, TN ($7.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.5% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Mount Pleasant is mostly in Maury County.

See federal money in Maury County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Mount Pleasant, Tennessee is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Andrew OglesR-TN-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 8.6%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Maury County56100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN57

Other cities and towns in Maury County

Largest first.

Columbia2845,441

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

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