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Pennsylvania
Top 100
City Population
Emmaus 11,900
Horsham 15,200
Nether Providence (Wallingford) 13,600
West Goshen 9,100
Other cities
City Population
Allentown 110,600
Ardmore 12,700
Back Mountain 27,500
Baldwin 19,000
Bensalem 59,500
Bethel Park 32,000
Bethlehem 75,400
Brentwood 9,800
Bristol 10,200
Brookhaven 7,800
Broomall 11,100
Canonsburg 8,500
Carlisle 18,600
Carnot-Moon 10,400
Castle Shannon 8,100
Collingdale 8,700
Colonial Park 13,000
Conshohocken 8,900
Croydon 10,000
Darby Township 9,400
Dormont 8,800
Downingtown 8,600
Doylestown 8,100
Drexel Hill 29,300
Dunmore 13,400
East Norriton 13,400
East Stroudsburg 11,100
East York 9,300
Economy 9,300
Elizabethtown 11,900
Ephrata 13,600
Erie 100,900
Fairless Hills 8,500
Fernway 13,100
Folsom 8,300
Franklin Park 11,200
Fullerton 16,000
Glenside 7,900
Grove City 7,900
Hampton Township 17,100
Hanover 15,000
Harleysville 9,400
Hermitage 16,400
Hershey 13,200
Indiana 14,500
Jefferson Hills 9,400
King of Prussia 19,100
Kingston 13,100
Kulpsville 8,700
Lansdale 16,000
Lansdowne 11,000
Levittown 53,500
Lititz 9,700
Lower Burrell 12,100
McCandless Township 27,800
Mechanicsburg 9,100
Middletown 9,300
Middletown 8,600
Millersville 7,900
Montgomeryville 12,900
Morrisville 10,100
Mount Lebanon 32,200
Mountain Top 15,000
Municipality of Monroeville 27,900
Municipality of Murrysville 18,600
Northampton 10,100
Northwest Harborcreek 8,800
O'Hara Township 8,500
Old Forge 8,500
Park Forest Village 9,900
Penn Hills 44,300
Perkasie 9,200
Philadelphia 1,449,400
Phoenixville 15,800
Pittsburgh 320,300
Pleasant Hills 8,000
Plum 26,100
Pottstown 22,700
Progress 9,700
Quakertown 9,200
Radnor Township 31,700
Robinson Township 12,300
Ross Township 31,000
Sanatoga 8,300
Scott Township 16,700
Shaler Township 28,400
Shiloh 10,600
South Park Township 13,800
Springfield 23,400
St. Marys 13,700
State College 39,200
Upper Providence Township 10,700
Upper St. Clair 19,100
Village Green-Green Ridge 8,200
Weigelstown 10,800
West Chester 19,100
West Mifflin 21,200
West Norriton 15,100
White Oak 8,200
Whitehall 13,700
Willow Grove 16,500
Willow Street 7,600
Wilson 8,000
Woodlyn 10,100
Wyomissing 9,500
Yeadon 11,700
York 26,300
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Montecito $3,157,233
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State College 76.5%
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Amherst Center 73.7%
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Storrs 20.65
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