About Huntingdon Valley

Huntingdon Valley is a medium-sized city located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 17,849 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Huntingdon Valley is the 55th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Huntingdon Valley home prices are not only among the most expensive in Pennsylvania, but Huntingdon Valley real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Huntingdon Valley is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 89.89% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Huntingdon Valley is a city of professionals, sales and office workers and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntingdon Valley who work in sales jobs (16.09%), office and administrative support (14.60%) and management occupations (11.56%).

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

In addition, Huntingdon Valley is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness'. But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

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

Huntingdon Valley is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Huntingdon Valley Information and Demographics

The citizens of Huntingdon Valley are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.92% of adults in Huntingdon Valley have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 19.23% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Huntingdon Valley in 2000 was $38,748, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $154,992 for a family of four. However, Huntingdon Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Huntingdon Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntingdon Valley residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Huntingdon Valley include German, Irish, Russian, Italian, English and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Huntingdon Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and Korean.