About Fox Chapel

Fox Chapel is a somewhat small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,436 people and just one neighborhood, Fox Chapel is the 321st largest community in Pennsylvania.

Fox Chapel is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 96.77% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fox Chapel is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fox Chapel who work in healthcare (22.36%), management occupations (17.45%), and legal occupations (11.18%).

Of important note, Fox Chapel is also a borough of artists. Fox Chapel has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fox Chapel's character.

In addition, Fox Chapel is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Fox Chapel is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Fox Chapel a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Fox Chapel has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Fox Chapel's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small borough, Fox Chapel does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Fox Chapel Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Fox Chapel is a pretty powerful place. 79.46% of the adults in Fox Chapel have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Fox Chapel in 2000 was $80,610, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $322,440 for a family of four. However, Fox Chapel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fox Chapel home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fox Chapel is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Fox Chapel include German, English, Irish, Italian, Russian, Scotch-Irish, Polish, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Fox Chapel is English.