Region guide

Allegheny Valley: 16 towns, 247 places to eat

The river towns and townships upstream on the Allegheny River, from Aspinwall and Oakmont to Tarentum and Brackenridge. Every town below has its own guide, built from county permits, Census data and county open data.

16municipalities
247places to eat
72%independent
65,491residents (2020)
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Map: U.S. Census TIGER/Line · 247 listings

Towns in the Allegheny Valley

Listings in each municipality12. Every one of the 16 has at least one listing in our directory.

Most places to eat

What the Allegheny Valley eats

By listing count1.

People and places

The 16 towns cover about 92 square miles of land and had 65,491 residents in 202023. The largest by population is West Deer (12,262). Median household income ranges from about $45,167 in Tarentum to $115,375 in Indiana4.

The Allegheny Valley is our own grouping of municipalities for browsing. It is not an official region, and other sources draw the lines differently.

Sources

  1. Pittsburgh Spotlight directory, built from Allegheny County Health Department food facility permits, plus OpenStreetMap listings marked unverifiedUpdated October 28, 2026. Counts include every listing inside the official boundary.
  2. TIGER/Line 2024 county subdivisions, PennsylvaniaU.S. Census Bureau. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Used for municipal boundaries, land area and point in polygon placement of listings.
  3. 2020 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171), county subdivisionsU.S. Census Bureau. Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
  4. American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates (tables B01002, B01003, B08301, B15003, B19013, B25003), county subdivisionsU.S. Census Bureau. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Estimates carry margins of error, which are large for small towns.
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