Another notable thing is that Albrightsville is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
The overall crime rate in Albrightsville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Albrightsville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Albrightsville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Albrightsville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Albrightsville may be for you.
Albrightsville 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 Albrightsville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Albrightsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Albrightsville has a very low overall level of education: only 8.75% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Albrightsville in 2022 was $24,213, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,852 for a family of four. However, Albrightsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Albrightsville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.25% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Albrightsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Albrightsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Albrightsville include German, Italian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Albrightsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.
