Tracing family history leads across the Atlantic for most Pleasant Hill residents. In fact, many distant relatives of today's denizens were more likely to say "guten tag" than "hello."
According to Census Bureau data on City-Data.com, the ancestry of Pleasant Hill's population breaks down to the following:
German (15.5%)
Irish (14.8%)
English (13.7%)
Italian (9.5%)
United States (3.9%)
Scottish (3.6%)
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