Doylestown vs Fairless Hills

A side-by-side comparison of Doylestown and Fairless Hills: population, income, housing, and more.

Doylestown and Fairless Hills are places in Pennsylvania. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Fairless Hills has the higher population (8,985 vs 8,322 in Doylestown). Doylestown has the higher median household income ($93,672 vs $80,625 in Fairless Hills). Doylestown has the higher median home value ($491,700 vs $328,000 in Fairless Hills).

Population, income & housing

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
Population	8,322	8,985
Median age	51.0 yrs	39.7 yrs
Median household income	$93,672	$80,625
Median home value	$491,700	$328,000
Median gross rent	$1,754	$1,240
Housing units	4,236	3,460
Homeownership rate	49.9%	70.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	60.4%	19.6%
Unemployment rate	3.0%	4.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
Population	8,286 → 8,322 (+0.4%)	8,379 → 8,985 (+7.2%)
Median household income	$74,243 → $93,672 (+26.2%)	$71,214 → $80,625 (+13.2%)
Median home value	$408,100 → $491,700 (+20.5%)	$237,500 → $328,000 (+38.1%)
Median gross rent	$1,418 → $1,754 (+23.7%)	$1,107 → $1,240 (+12.0%)

Doylestown

Population

8,2868,322

Median household income

$74,243$93,672

Median home value

$408,100$491,700

Median gross rent

$1,418$1,754

Fairless Hills

Population

8,3798,985

Median household income

$71,214$80,625

Median home value

$237,500$328,000

Median gross rent

$1,107$1,240

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
Under 5	4.1%	3.6%
5 to 17	10.2%	14.9%
18 to 24	6.7%	9.3%
25 to 34	13.7%	14.9%
35 to 44	8.6%	12.6%
45 to 54	13.7%	12.9%
55 to 64	14.2%	15.8%
65 to 74	13.5%	9.6%
75 and over	15.2%	6.4%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
White (non-Hispanic)	90.8%	83.8%
Black or African American	0.7%	3.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	1.6%	4.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.4%	0.2%
Two or more races	2.2%	1.8%
Hispanic or Latino	4.3%	6.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
No high school diploma	2.1%	7.6%
High school graduate	16.2%	42.5%
Some college or associate's	21.3%	30.3%
Bachelor's degree	38.0%	12.9%
Graduate or professional degree	22.4%	6.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
Drove alone	69.6%	76.9%
Carpooled	3.4%	7.6%
Public transit	0.2%	1.5%
Walked	8.3%	1.9%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	18.0%	11.9%
Other means	0.5%	0.2%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
1-unit, detached	36.1%	66.4%
1-unit, attached	20.2%	6.4%
2 to 4 units	13.5%	2.4%
5 to 19 units	10.1%	9.5%
20 or more units	20.1%	11.5%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	3.9%

Poverty & households

	Doylestown	Fairless Hills
Poverty rate	6.0%	11.8%
Average household size	1.92	2.66
Mean commute (minutes)	25	25
Median year structure built	1962	1959