The city 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, Philadelphia has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Philadelphia a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Philadelphia 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.
In Philadelphia, just 12.95% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Philadelphia in 2018 was $28,816, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,264 for a family of four. However, Philadelphia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Philadelphia is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Philadelphia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Philadelphia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Philadelphia include German, English, African, Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Philadelphia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
