City · Sanpete County, Utah

Mount Pleasant, Utah

Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah. It has 3,805 residents. Mount Pleasant, Utah has a quality-of-life score of 57 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #6,756 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Utah it ranks #136 of 175 cities and towns. It ranks best on mental health providers (high), income inequality (Gini index) (low) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (low). It ranks worst on social associations (low), drought exposure (high) and arts, entertainment and recreation (low).

57Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #6,756 of 15,651 cities and towns
Utah: #136 of 175 in UT
Population: 3,805 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,300.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4953010

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety76#3,676/15,637
Economy47#8,288/15,631
Housing75#3,773/14,977
Health48#8,160/15,609
Healthcare32#10,600/15,650
Environment100#23/15,453
Education66#5,397/15,649
Infrastructure58#6,631/15,650
Community20#12,529/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,505/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Mount Pleasant, Utah ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Sanpete 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

Mental health providers · high963 /100k
99/100Utah 418 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSanpete County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.341
97/100Utah 0.427United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · low5.3 µg/m³
95/100Utah 7.3 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencySanpete County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Utah 1.9 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSanpete County value
Hot days · low2 days
93/100Utah 39 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSanpete County value
Property crime rate · low461 /100k
91/100Utah 1,416 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationSanpete County value

Weaknesses

Social associations · low0.0 /10k
0/100Utah 3.6 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSanpete County value
Drought exposure · high100%
1/100Utah 98%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAASanpete County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.6 /10k
2/100Utah 5.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSanpete County value
Restaurants and bars · low3.8 /10k
4/100Utah 5.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSanpete County value
Average weekly wage · low$889
5/100Utah $1,333United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSanpete County value
Pharmacies · low0.6 /10k
5/100Utah 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsSanpete County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,418 (2015-2019) → 3,805 (2020-2024)
+11%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.8% (2015-2019) → 47.7% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.0× (2015-2019) → 4.6× (2020-2024)
+50%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
37.0% (2015-2019) → 27.2% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.2% (2015-2019) → 93.1% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Unemployment rateImproving
9.9% (2015-2019) → 4.0% (2020-2024)
−6 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, Utah improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved1

Household income+26%$54,875 → $68,920

Declined1

Price / income+1.5×3.0× → 4.6×

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Mount Pleasant, Utah between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.1 min2015-2019	23.3 min2020-2024	−1.8 min	Within the margin of error	68%
Bachelor's degree or higher	22.1%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Broadband subscriptions	84.2%2015-2019	93.1%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Within the margin of error	54%
Child poverty rate	37.0%2015-2019	27.2%2020-2024	−9.8 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Effective property tax rate	0.66%2015-2019	0.48%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	55%
High school diploma or higher	89.2%2015-2019	88.5%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Home price to income ratio	3.0×2015-2019	4.6×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	9%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3912015-2019	0.3412020-2024	−0.049	Within the margin of error	84%
Median household income	$54,8752015-2019	$68,9202020-2024	+26%	Improved	45%
Poverty rate	20.6%2015-2019	19.7%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	52%
Rent-burdened households	36.8%2015-2019	47.7%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	11.1%2015-2019	13.4%2020-2024	+2.3 points	Within the margin of error	23%

“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, Utah five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Mount Pleasant, Utah 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, Utah itself moved −3 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

3,805 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

1,217 households (±135)

Mount Pleasant, Utah
Utah share

Under $25k9.4%†115
$25k–50k22%†271
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,217 households (±135)

Mount Pleasant, Utah
Utah share

Own75%912
Rent25%305

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,625 workers (±200)

Mount Pleasant, Utah
Utah share

Drive alone68%1,097
Carpool17%†276
Public transit0.0%0

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 Sanpete County, the county holding most of Mount Pleasant's residents.

Sanpete County has 534 employer establishments, 175 for every 10,000 residents (0.70× the US rate of 248; 0.63× Utah's), with 5,367 paid employees at an average annual pay of $38,362. The Census Bureau also counts 2,546 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 534; 2,546 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 175; US 248 · Utah 277
Paid employees: 5,367
Average annual pay: $38,362; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	74	24.2	1.56×More than typical	324	$46,907	190
Ambulatory health care services	44	14.4	0.69×Fewer than typical	224	$49,946	80
Restaurants and other eating places	30	9.8	0.53×Fewer than typical	400	$9,935	12
Construction of buildings	25	8.2	1.08×About typical	149	$40,919	135
Foundation, structure and building exterior contractors	21	6.9	2.18×More than typical	84	$53,476	41
Truck transportation	21	6.9	1.36×More than typical	103	$53,612	82
Building equipment contractors	20	6.5	1.09×About typical	106	$48,358	34
Lessors of real estate	20	6.5	0.53×Fewer than typical	63	$19,413	259
Other specialty trade contractors	20	6.5	2.61×More than typical	52	$56,962	66
Offices of other health practitioners	19	6.2	1.02×About typical	58	$33,000	45
Limited-service restaurants	17	5.6	0.69×Fewer than typical	248	$10,621	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	15	4.9	0.97×About typical	37	$39,108	51

Rank places for an industry Open Sanpete County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 30,565 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Mount Pleasant, Utah: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

2.2KFY2017
32.7FY2018
978.1FY2020
882.3FY2022

What was bought

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, Utah, so they do not add up across cities.

Mount Pleasant, Utah's figures are part of those of Sanpete County, UT ($7.5M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

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

See federal money in Sanpete 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, Utah is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Burgess OwensR-UT-4 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 2.2%

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.

Sanpete County63100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Sanpete County

Largest first.

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
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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