Region guide

North Hills: 23 towns, 634 places to eat

The townships north of the city along Route 19, McKnight Road and Route 8, plus the river boroughs on the Ohio. Every town below has its own guide, built from county permits, Census data and county open data.

23municipalities
634places to eat
54%independent
223,685residents (2020)
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Map: U.S. Census TIGER/Line · 634 listings

Towns in the North Hills

Listings in each municipality12. 1 of the 23 have no listings in our directory yet (Ben Avon Heights); their guides point to the nearest places to eat.

Most places to eat

What the North Hills eats

By listing count1.

People and places

The 23 towns cover about 152 square miles of land and had 223,685 residents in 202023. The largest by population is Ross (33,567). Median household income ranges from about $51,250 in Avalon to $243,625 in Fox Chapel4.

The North Hills 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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