Hartly is a tiny town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 72 people and just one neighborhood, Hartly is the 45th largest community in Delaware. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Hartly, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Hartly, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Hartly’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Hartly does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $130,653.00.
When you are in Hartly, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 67.16% of Hartly’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hartly is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hartly who work in computer science and math (8.96%), healthcare suport services (7.46%), and food service (5.97%).
Also of interest is that Hartly has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Hartly’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hartly has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hartly a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Hartly is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Hartly ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.93% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hartly in 2018 was $42,610, which is upper middle income relative to Delaware, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $170,440 for a family of four.
The people who call Hartly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hartly residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hartly include German, French, Dutch, Welsh, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Hartly is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.8% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 0.7% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hartly are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Italian and Spanish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Hartly, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.9%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
