Chadds Ford is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 8,701 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Chadds Ford is the 173rd largest community in Pennsylvania.

Chadds Ford is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 89.67% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Chadds Ford is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chadds Ford who work in management occupations (20.86%), sales jobs (14.32%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.50%).

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

In addition, Chadds Ford 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, Chadds Ford 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, Chadds Ford really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Chadds Ford 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.

Being a small town, Chadds Ford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Chadds Ford Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Chadds Ford, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Chadds Ford is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 60.26% 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 Chadds Ford in 2000 was $52,438, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $209,752 for a family of four. However, Chadds Ford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Chadds Ford home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Chadds Ford is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Chadds Ford include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Chadds Ford is English.