Burb vs. burb

Narberth Sellersville

Montgomery County against Bucks County, $400K 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 $725K.
  • Narberth has a train (25 min to Center City); Sellersville doesn't. For some households that ends the conversation.
  • Narberth wins the browse. The shops are the afternoon.
  • Narberth has the better main-street walk.
  • Sellersville owns the night: more taprooms, later rooms.

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

Narberth Sellersville
CountyMontgomeryBucks
Typical home$725K$325K
TrainNarberth, about 25 minNo station
Drive to Center City~15 min~55 min
SchoolsLower MerionPennridge
Population4,4924,567
In our guide55 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

Narberth

  • Srinagar Indian Cuisine: Kashmiri and North Indian cooking on N Essex Ave, named for Kashmir's summer capital.
  • Narberth Bookshop: The independent bookshop on Haverford Ave, small and tightly curated by staff who actually read what they shelve.
  • Rolling Hill Park: A 103-acre township nature park in Gladwyne with hiking and equestrian trails.

The full Narberth 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 →