South Hills: 18 towns, 578 places to eat
The boroughs and townships south of the city along Route 19, Route 51 and the T light rail lines. Every town below has its own guide, built from county permits, Census data and county open data.
Towns in the South Hills
Listings in each municipality12. Every one of the 18 has at least one listing in our directory.
Most places to eat
What the South Hills eats
By listing count1.
People and places
The 18 towns cover about 79 square miles of land and had 228,811 residents in 202023. The largest by population is Mt. Lebanon (34,075). Median household income ranges from about $52,297 in Mount Oliver to $163,409 in Upper St. Clair4.
The South Hills is our own grouping of municipalities for browsing. It is not an official region, and other sources draw the lines differently.
Sources
- 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.
- 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.
- 2020 Census Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171), county subdivisionsU.S. Census Bureau. Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
- 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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