Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Drexel Hill, PA

Drexel Hill is a neighborhood and census-designated place in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, about eight miles from Center City Philadelphia.

With 29,181 residents at the 2020 census, Drexel Hill accounts for more than one-third of Upper Darby Township's entire population.

Drexel Hill had 11,761 households at the 2020 census, packed into just 3.2 square miles at roughly 8,800 people per square mile.

The Lower Swedish Cabin on Creek Road in Drexel Hill, built by Swedish settlers of the New Sweden colony between about 1640 and 1650, is one of the oldest log cabins in the United States and is often described as Pennsylvania's oldest house.

The Swedish cabin later served as a filming location for early motion pictures shot by Philadelphia film pioneer Siegmund Lubin between 1904 and 1906, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Drexel Hill's Collen Brook Farm preserves a house and barn built around 1710 by Abraham Lewis; Upper Darby Township has owned the farm since 1989 and opens it to the public on Sundays from May through October.

Thornfield, on Garrett Road in Drexel Hill, was the boyhood home of Thomas Garrett, the famed abolitionist who later became a stationmaster on the Underground Railroad in Wilmington, Delaware.

SEPTA's Route 101 and Route 102 trolley lines run through Drexel Hill, linking it to the 69th Street Transportation Center, Media and Sharon Hill.

The Upper Darby School District runs Drexel Hill Middle School and the Aronimink, Garretford and Charles Kelly elementary schools inside the CDP, while Upper Darby High School sits just outside it with a Drexel Hill address.

Television host Dick Clark lived at the Drexelbrook apartments in Drexel Hill from 1954 to 1956, just before he began hosting American Bandstand, and singer-songwriter Jim Croce grew up in Drexel Hill.