About Fairview

Fairview is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 8,029 people and just one neighborhood, Fairview is the 198th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Fairview is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fairview is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fairview who work in management occupations (13.89%), office and administrative support jobs (12.15%), and sales jobs (11.17%).

Because of many things, Fairview 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, Fairview really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fairview 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.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Fairview spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.79 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Fairview is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Fairview, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.18% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Fairview doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Fairview Information and Demographics

The citizens of Fairview are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 33.21% of adults in Fairview have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fairview in 2000 was $23,951, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,804 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Fairview is English.