Hartly is a tiny town located in the state of Delaware. With a population of 77 people and just one neighborhood, Hartly is the 45th largest community in Delaware. Much of the housing stock in Hartly was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Hartly economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Hartly, where the median household income is $143,153.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hartly is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 63.77% of the Hartly workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hartly is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hartly who work in food service (7.25%), healthcare suport services (7.25%), and computer science and math (7.25%).
Also of interest is that Hartly has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Hartly 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!) Hartly 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. Hartly has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hartly than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hartly may be for you.
Being a small town, Hartly does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Hartly has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 1.87% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hartly in 2022 was $47,549, which is upper middle income relative to Delaware, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $190,196 for a family of four.
The people who call Hartly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hartly residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hartly include German, French, Dutch, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Hartly is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.0% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.3% of America's neighborhoods.
In addition, the neighborhood stands out within Delaware for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 10.0% of college-friendly places to live in DE.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 0.7% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hartly are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.2%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Italian and Spanish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Hartly, DE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (20.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.