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Bryn Athyn is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,302 people and just one neighborhood, Bryn Athyn is the 777th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Bryn Athyn home prices are not only among the most expensive in Pennsylvania, but Bryn Athyn real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Occupations and Workforce
Bryn Athyn is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 90.81% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bryn Athyn is a borough of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bryn Athyn who work in teaching (20.10%), management occupations (17.68%), and computer science and math (7.97%).
Also of interest is that Bryn Athyn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Bryn Athyn is also a borough of artists. Bryn Athyn has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bryn Athyn’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.20% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
For a small borough, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Bryn Athyn. This is not typical for smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Bryn Athyn.
Bryn Athyn is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Bryn Athyn’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
In Bryn Athyn, a lot of people use the train to get to work every day though Bryn Athyn is a relatively small borough. Those that ride the train are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
Demographics
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Bryn Athyn, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Bryn Athyn is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 69.62% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bryn Athyn in 2022 was $59,370, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $237,480 for a family of four.
The people who call Bryn Athyn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bryn Athyn residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bryn Athyn include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Bryn Athyn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
People
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, a majority of the adults in the neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Pennsylvania by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees, college students and urban sophisticates.
Also, an extraordinary 17.8% of the residents of the neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
Finally, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.
Modes of Transportation
More people in choose to walk to work each day (13.7%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
Real Estate
One way that the neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 25.6% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bryn Athyn are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 91.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 63.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (7.6%), and 7.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Bryn Athyn, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (56.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (13.7%) and 8.3% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
