About Ben Avon Heights

Ben Avon Heights is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 385 people and just one neighborhood, Ben Avon Heights is the 998th largest community in Pennsylvania. Ben Avon Heights has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Ben Avon Heights is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 94.08% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ben Avon Heights is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ben Avon Heights who work in management occupations (21.30%), sales jobs (12.43%), and business and financial occupations (11.24%).

Also of interest is that Ben Avon Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Ben Avon Heights is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Ben Avon Heights 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, Ben Avon Heights really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Ben Avon Heights perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

As is often the case in a small borough, Ben Avon Heights doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Ben Avon Heights Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Ben Avon Heights, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Ben Avon Heights is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 74.03% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Ben Avon Heights in 2000 was $44,191, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $176,764 for a family of four. However, Ben Avon Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ben Avon Heights home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Ben Avon Heights is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ben Avon Heights include English, Italian, German, Irish, Scottish, Polish, Ukrainian, Norwegian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Ben Avon Heights is English.