Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

administration
Westmoreland County Courthouse, listed on the NRHP since 1978
US state :	Pennsylvania
Administrative headquarters :	Greensburg
Foundation :	February 26, 1773
Made up from:	Bedford County
Area code :	001 724
Demographics
Residents :	365,169 (2010)
Population density :	137.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2684 km²
Water surface :	28 km²
map

Website : www.co.westmoreland.pa.us

The Westmoreland County is a county in the US state of Pennsylvania . At the 2010 census , the county had 365,169 people and a population density of 137.5 people per square kilometer. The administrative seat ( county seat ) is Greensburg .

Westmoreland County is part of the metropolitan area around the city of Pittsburgh .

geography

The county is located in southwest Pennsylvania on the Monongahela River and the Allegheny River , the two headwaters of the Ohio River . Westmoreland has an area of 2,684 square kilometers, of which 28 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

Butler County	Armstrong County	Indiana County
Allegheny County		Cambria County
Washington County	Fayette County	Somerset County

history

The county was formed on February 26, 1773 from former parts of Bedford County. It was named after the traditional English county of Westmorland and because the county originally comprised all of western Pennsylvania.

Historic Buildings

The historic John Walter Farmstead homestead is located in Washington Township . The property was listed on July 21, 1995 on the National Register of Historic Places with number 95000885.

One place in the county has the status of a National Historic Landmark , the Bushy Run Battlefield , which was the site of the Pontiac uprising . 51 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of July 25, 2018).

Demographic data

The NRHP- listed Longdon L. Miller Covered Bridge in Westmoreland County

According to the 2010 census , Westmoreland County had 365,169 people in 151,936 households. The population density was 137.5 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 95.3 percent white, 2.3 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.7 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.9 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.32 people lived in 151,936 households.

19.9 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 18.9 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 47,312 USD . The per capita income was $ 25,344. 10.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Westmoreland County

Population development
Census	Residents	± in%
1790	16,019	-
1800	22,726	41.9%
1810	26,392	16.1%
1820	30,540	15.7%
1830	38,400	25.7%
1840	42,699	11.2%
1850	51,726	21.1%
1860	53,736	3.9%
1870	58,719	9.3%
1880	78.036	32.9%
1890	112,819	44.6%
1900	160.175	42%
1910	231,304	44.4%
1920	273,568	18.3%
1930	294.995	7.8%
1940	303.411	2.9%
1950	313.179	3.2%
1960	352,629	12.6%
1970	376.935	6.9%
1980	392.294	4.1%
1990	370.321	-5.6%
2000	369.993	-0.1%
2010	365.169	-1.3%
before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010