[6] As of the 2010 census, Bryn Athyn was 92.5% White, 2.7% Black or African American, 2.5% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian, and 1.8% were two or more races.

Bryn Athyn has a city manager form of government with a mayor (Kenneth Schauder) and borough council.

Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.

Neighboring Montgomery County officials are supportive of re-thinking the rail corridor as well, though the belief within SEPTA management is that the section through Lorimer Park and Walnut Hill Station (the only sparsely populated section along the railway) will never generate enough riders to be feasible.

Both Bucks and Montgomery County officials, as well as state representatives, have been receptive to PA-TEC's efforts, despite SEPTA's overall reservations.

[15][better source needed] All plans for resuming the train service were dropped in 2014 when Montgomery County officials decided to extend the Pennypack Trail over the derelict rail bed.

[17] On December 5, 1921, two Reading Railroad passenger steam trains collided head-on on a blind curve.

The impact sent red-hot coals flying forward from each engine, raining down on the wooden passenger cars of the oncoming train.

Most of those killed had burned to death, in part because the wooden cars had burned so quickly and also because of the inability of rescue workers to get access to the trains, which were wedged between the rock walls of a cut through hilly and wooded terrain without road access for fire equipment.

The incident led to a ban on the use of wooden rail cars in order to prevent future disasters of a similar nature.

The district website cites the small number of children within the borough enrolled in public schools.