Philadelphia’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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.
Being a small city, Philadelphia does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Philadelphia are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.97% of adults in Philadelphia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Philadelphia in 2022 was $32,827, 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 $131,308 for a family of four. However, Philadelphia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Philadelphia is a somewhat 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, African, English, Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Philadelphia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
