Harleysville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 8,869 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Harleysville is the 167th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Harleysville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Harleysville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harleysville who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.82%), sales jobs (11.40%), and management occupations (8.69%).

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

Because of many things, Harleysville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Harleysville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Harleysville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Harleysville's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Harleysville 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 Harleysville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.69% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Harleysville Information and Demographics

The education level of Harleysville citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 35.73% of adults in Harleysville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Harleysville in 2000 was $26,572, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,288 for a family of four. However, Harleysville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Harleysville is English.