Pennsylvania Population

Pennsylvania Population by Race & Groups

As on July 2018, 79% of the Pennsylvania is covered with White American population, followed by 10.8% by Black or African American, 6.7% by Hispanic or Latino, 3.2% by Asians. Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders are 3,665 which includes Samoan, Guamanian or Chamorro and Native Hawaiian. American Indian and Alaska Native are 24,995 residents, Asian Population in Pennsylvania are about 417 thousand, includes Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese and Filipinos. Hispanic or Latino 874 thousand includes Puerto Rican with 434 thousand, Cubans 21 thousand and Mexicans with 151 thousand people. As per the Pennsylvania History, The Native Indians are the first people of Pennsylvania were part of the earliest waves of human migration into the Western hemisphere. Archaeological evidence shows ther existence of modern Pennsylvania's borders as far back as 12,000 years ago, The Paleo Indians came to the North America about 30,000 to 10,000 years ago during the end of the last Ice Age, when ocean levels are very low and exposed the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska. Hunters crossed this land bridge from Asia into North America. The most famous Paleo Indian archaeological site in Pennsylvania, the Meadowcroft Rockshelter, shows evidence of human occupation possibly as early as 16,000 years ago, meaning it may be one of the earliest site of human occupation in North America. Paleo-Indians used to live in natural rock like shelters elsewhere in Pennsylvania, hunting turkey, deer, elk, and other prey. Native Indians were hunter gatherers initially, but due to the natural resources around them changed, their technology became more diverse to take advantage of their surroundings. Native Indians were a constantly changing with cultural groups of different languages and customs. By 1,000 B.C. life of Indian peoples changed drastically as they learned to cultivate crops. Agriculture made it possible to produce food surpluses, which in turn they lived peacefully by population expansion. They improved their technologies for farming, hunting, pottery making and fishing which was borrowed from different region tribes and communicating with each other and over that vast period of time, Indian cultures developed and diversified in many ways as they developed and adapted by improving the living standards. By 800 BC - 100 A.D, technologies has been improved, construction of small structures and increasing significance as ceremonial centers for Indian communities. Between 1000 - 1500 AD, distinct Indian cultures had population centers along the three major river systems of Pennsylvania, namely, the Delaware, the Susquehanna, and the Allegheny-Ohio. The Lenape tribe inhabited in the south and north parts of the Delaware Valley, people living in villages and commuting to seasonal hunting and fishing camps. By the time Europeans arrived in Penn's Woods in the 1600, Explorers might more accurately have been called The "Indians", they are well planned and already quite occupied land. Manipulation of the landscape was evident in their villages, fields, and hunting and fishing camps. Distinct Indian peoples who lived are in the major river valleys, located from the Delaware to the Ohio state. The paths or the walk ways they had created to travel and trade among these distant places and many of their diverse communities criss-crossed the landscape. There were many developments taken place like Native place names, burial mounds, and mysterious petroglyphs etched into rocks testified to the sacred attachment Indians had been developed to this land over thousands of years. Pennsylvania means "Penn's woods", Admiral William Penn was first granted the tract of land by King Charles II because of a significant debt owed to his father, It is named after Admiral Penn. Pennsylvania attracted several religious and ethnic groups whom may be fleeing the countries like Huguenots, Catholics, Puritans, Mennonites, Calvinists, Anglicans and Jews. Penn died in 1718, and then was succeeded as proprietor of the colony by his sons. Benjamin Franklin was a leading writer, politician and scientist founded The University of Pennsylvania in 1740. In 1780, Pennsylvania passed the law for the abolition of slavery, Pennsylvania is the first state to pass an act. Pennsylvania ratified the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, and served as the capital of the nation from 1790-1800 before capital was moved to Washington, DC.

Top Cities of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the most populous in the Pennsylvania state as on 2018, ranks seventy-one city as per the 2020 Urban Agglomeration stats by UN, followed by Pittsburgh with 301,048 and Allentown with 121,433 are the second and third populous states in state of Pennsylvania.

Population Pyramid

Pennsylvania population pyramid hints the growth or decline pattern, as on 2017 Pennsylvania census, 0 to 14 years pattern is steady, there by slightly increased until 29 years and 45 to 59 years, In the 30 to 44 age group and above 70 years there is a decline in population. From 70 years and above the female population is greater than male and the female population is doubled to male for above 80.

Languages spoken in PA