Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Bryn Athyn’s best subject grades are an A+ for incomes, walkability, and health; its weakest is a C for cost of living. 69% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Bryn Athyn, where Pennsylvania’s towns sit at 29% and U.S. towns at 29%. No town in Pennsylvania scores higher than Bryn Athyn on incomes. Crime is low: it reports less per resident than 86% of U.S. towns. 33% of the land in Bryn Athyn is conserved, above both the Pennsylvania town median (8.2%) and the median of U.S. towns (4.3%). On the outdoors, just 19 of Pennsylvania’s 1,751 towns do better. Bryn Athyn is home to Bryn Athyn College of the New Church. Bryn Athyn has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Where Bryn Athyn beats most towns.
| Widest gap | Bryn Athyn | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.8% | 14.5% |
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Pennsylvania), ordered by how far Bryn Athyn is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 392 in 1920, 1,272 in 2020. The archive holds 26 old photos and papers going back to 1921 and 6 maps from 1893 on.
4 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Bryn Athyn. Close and well known come first.
Big draw6 mi MuseumLynnewood Hall
Big draw14 mi MuseumUSS New Jersey
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaLincoln Financial Field
Big draw14 mi Ancient siteIndependence Hall3.0M visitors a year
Big draw13 mi MuseumEastern State Penitentiary
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaXfinity Mobile ArenaLynnewood Hall: Shuvaev, CC BY-SA 3.0 · USS New Jersey: Camera Operator: PH3 BRYANT, Public domain · Lincoln Financial Field: The original uploader was Betp at French Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Independence Hall: Mys 721tx, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Eastern State Penitentiary: Davidt8, Public domain · Xfinity Mobile Arena: Jen Smith, CC BY 3.0
Who provides power, water and the rest in Bryn Athyn, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Bryn Athyn.
The typical Bryn Athyn home is worth about $739,000, up 4% in a year, more than twice the Pennsylvania typical home. The median rent in Bryn Athyn is $1,571 a month.
| Bryn Athyn | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,571 a month | $1,115 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 67% | 78% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Two of its 3 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryn Athyn Church School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades PK–8 | Grades PK–8 | 264 | – |
| Academy of the New Church Boys School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 112 | – |
NCES · EDFacts
9.5% of adults smoke cigarettes in Bryn Athyn. Bryn Athyn beats the Pennsylvania average on 14 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 21% of adults binge drink in Bryn Athyn.
| Bryn Athyn | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 9.9% | 14% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 16% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 9.5% | 17% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 24% | 25% |
| What stands out | Bryn Athyn | PA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.8% | 14.5% |
| Fewer smokers | 9.5% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
0.3% of Bryn Athyn residents live below the poverty line. Since 2013, Bryn Athyn has added 120 jobs, to 904 in 2023. Bryn Athyn’s median household income is $143,000.
| Bryn Athyn | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $143,000 | $81,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 17 minutes | 26 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 0.3% | 7.6% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 16% | 6.3% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
6.2 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, at 293 acres with 2.5 miles of trail, is the biggest park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust | 2.5 mi | 293 |
| 2. Burrow Park | 0.1 mi | 21 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 70% of U.S. communities. Since 1996, 5 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Bryn Athyn.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Bryn Athyn has chilly winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. July afternoons reach 87°, January nights drop to 24° and about 20 inches of snow falls in a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
37 within 15 miles of the center of Bryn Athyn
College town 21 of every 100 Bryn Athyn residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Where Bryn Athyn’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
4 places in Bryn Athyn on the National Register of Historic Places.
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
Bryn Athyn is a home-rule borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was formerly a borough, and its official name remains "Borough of Bryn Athyn". As of the 2020 census, Bryn Athyn had a population of 1,272. It was formed for religious reasons from Moreland Township on February 8, 1916. Bryn Athyn is surrounded by Lower Moreland Township. "Bryn Athyn" was intended to mean "Hill of Unity" by its founders. "Bryn" is Welsh for "hill"; the source of "athyn" was the 1889 edition William Spurrell's An English-Welsh Pronouncing Dictionary. Spurrell, in turn, apparently got the word from William Owen Pughe, who seems to have coined the term for his Dictionary of the Welsh Langua…
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That is 8.1 years of the area's median household income ($91,289 across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.
2 notable people were born here, including Harold Frederick Pitcairn and Hugo Salinas Price.
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