Because of many things, Nottingham is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Nottingham really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Nottingham perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Nottingham, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.35 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Nottingham does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Nottingham are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.85% of adults in Nottingham having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Nottingham in 2022 was $46,799, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $187,196 for a family of four. However, Nottingham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Nottingham is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Nottingham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nottingham residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Nottingham also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.05% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Nottingham include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Nottingham is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Spanish.
