In 2024, there were about 267,800 people living in Erie County, PA. That makes Erie County the 16th-most populous county in Pennsylvania. It is home to 2.1% of people living in the state.<\/p>\n
268K<\/p>\n
population of Erie County, PA (2024)<\/p>\n
2.1%<\/p>\n
County share of the Pennsylvania population (2024)<\/p>\n
About 267,800 people lived in Erie County, PA in 2024.<\/p>\n
Population estimates, 2000\u20132024<\/p>\n
What are Erie County, PA\u2019s age demographics?<\/p>\n
About 55,800 Erie County, PA residents are aged 65 and older in 2024. That represents 20.8% of its population. For comparison, the age group represents 20.4% of Pennsylvania\u2019s population and 18% in the US overall.<\/p>\n
Another 54,300 Erie County residents, or 20.3% of the population, were children under 18. For comparison, the age group represents 20.1% of Pennsylvania\u2019s population and 21.6% in the US overall.<\/p>\n
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A higher share of Erie County, PA’s population is aged 65 or older than the US as a whole.<\/p>\n
Population estimates by age group, (2024)<\/p>\n
What are Erie County, PA\u2019s racial and ethnic demographics?<\/p>\n
Non-Hispanic white residents make up 82.2% of the Erie County, PA population, higher than the national share of 57.5%. Erie County, PA also has a larger share of people identifying as non-Hispanic two or more races (2.5%) than the US overall (2.5%).<\/p>\n
In contrast, Erie County\u2019s Hispanic population accounts for 5.1%, below the 20% nationwide, and the non-Hispanic Black or African American population makes up 7.5% of the county, compared with 12.6% nationally.<\/p>\n
Racial and ethnic make up differ based on location. These figures reflect how people identified their race alone (not in combination with other races), and separate out Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, following Census reporting standards.<\/p>\n
Erie County, PA has a higher share of a non-Hispanic white population than Pennsylvania as a whole.<\/p>\n
Population estimates by race and ethnicity, (2024)<\/p>\n
The largest city or town in Erie County, PA is Erie with about 92,900 residents in 2024.<\/p>\n
Cities and towns in Erie County, PA ranked by population<\/p>\n
Population (2024), includes only portions within county<\/p>\n
Cities and towns in Erie County, PA ranked by populationCity or townPopulation1. 92,9402. 53,0593. 16,6954. 11,4395. 7,2826. 6,4517. 6,0658. 5,8149. 4,80010. 4,438See all (38)Keep exploring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, there were about 267,800 people living in Erie County, PA. That makes Erie County the 16th-most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-163055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}