Burb vs. burb

Doylestown Sellersville

Two Bucks County contenders, $364K 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 $689K.
  • Doylestown has a train (75 min to Center City); Sellersville doesn't. For some households that ends the conversation.
  • Doylestown wins the browse. The shops are the afternoon.
  • Doylestown has the better main-street walk.
  • Doylestown takes the food question. More kitchens worth arguing about.

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

Doylestown Sellersville
CountyBucksBucks
Typical home$689K$325K
TrainDoylestown, about 75 minNo station
Drive to Center City~45 min~55 min
SchoolsCentral BucksPennridge
Population8,3004,567
In our guide116 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

Doylestown

  • 86 West: Sushi and tapas-style small plates up front, and the closest Doylestown gets to a downtown nightclub once the kitchen winds down.
  • Central Books: Thirty years of used books spread over two floors and many rooms of a Victorian on West State.
  • National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa: A Polish-American Catholic shrine founded in 1955 on Beacon Hill, the highest elevation in Bucks County.

The full Doylestown 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 →