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.
Albrightsville’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, Albrightsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Albrightsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Albrightsville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Albrightsville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, Albrightsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Albrightsville have a very low rate of college education: just 8.75% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
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.
