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.
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 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.
Albrightsville 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.
The rate of college-level education in Albrightsville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.23% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Albrightsville in 2022 was $25,789, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,156 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 37.50% 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.
