Mount Pleasant, Cleveland

41°27′47″N 81°36′28″W / 41.4631328°N 81.6077331°W / 41.4631328; -81.6077331CountryUnited StatesStateOhioCountyCuyahoga CountyCityClevelandPopulation • Total15,059Demographics^[1] • White2% • Black95.3% • Hispanic (of any race)1.4% • Asian and Pacific Islander0.2% • Mixed and Other2.5%Time zoneUTC-5 (EST) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)ZIP CodesArea code216Median income^[1]$28,087Source: 2020 U.S. Census

Mount Pleasant is a neighborhood on the East Side of Cleveland, Ohio. It borders the neighborhoods of Buckeye–Shaker and Buckeye–Woodhill to the north, Kinsman to the west, Union–Miles Park to the south, and the suburb of Shaker Heights and the Lee–Harvard neighborhood of Cleveland's Lee–Miles area to the east. The neighborhood has been home to numerous ethnic groups, first Manx immigrants, then Germans, Czechs, Russians, Jews, and Italians.^[2] Today, it is a predominantly African American neighborhood.^[2] Together with Buckeye–Shaker, it is politically part of Cleveland's Ward 4.^[3]

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Further reading

• Michney, Todd M. (2017). Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900–1980. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1469631943.