Burb vs. burb

Ardmore Sellersville

Montgomery County against Bucks County, $214K apart on a typical house, and two different ideas of a Saturday. The tale of the tape:

Quick verdict

  • Your dollar goes further in Sellersville: homes around $325K against $539K.
  • Ardmore has a train (30 min to Center City); Sellersville doesn't. For some households that ends the conversation.
  • Ardmore wins the browse. The shops are the afternoon.
  • Ardmore takes the food question. More kitchens worth arguing about.
  • Sellersville gets you onto a trail faster.

The read, side by side

Food scene
Nights out
Shops & browsing
Arts & festivals
Trails & outdoors
Family Saturdays
Train to the city
Main-street walk
Peace & quiet

Scored 0–5 by us, the way we’d brief a friend. Not by a formula.

The numbers

Ardmore Sellersville
CountyMontgomeryBucks
Typical home$539K$325K
TrainArdmore, about 30 minNo station
Drive to Center City~25 min~55 min
SchoolsLower MerionPennridge
Population13,5664,567
In our guide112 places26 places

Home values: typical figures checked against Zillow and Redfin, mid-2026. Train times: typical scheduled rides to Jefferson Station, rounded. Verify before you commit to anything with a mortgage on it.

A Saturday in each

Ardmore

  • Felicia's Pizza Kitchen: Pizza on West Lancaster Avenue, run as a takeout counter with a handful of seats.
  • Pilot and Powell: A clothing boutique on Parking Plaza, the block behind Lancaster Avenue where Ardmore keeps its municipal lots.
  • Axiom Contemporary: Contemporary art gallery in a Coulter Ave storefront, a block off the Lancaster Avenue strip.

The full Ardmore guide →

Sellersville

  • The Washington House Hotel & Restaurant: The dinner-and-a-show half of the Sellersville Theater complex, sharing a wall with the 325-seat STG stage so you can eat and walk next door without moving the car.
  • Sellersville Beverage & Cigar: A family beer distributor since 2006, with a walk-in humidor of a few thousand cigars set behind the cases of craft, import, and domestic.
  • Lake Lenape Waterfalls: The spillway pours over a low WPA-built dam into the East Branch of the Perkiomen Creek, the natural halfway point on the loop that circles this 122-acre park straddling Sellersville and Perkasie.

The full Sellersville guide →