At 16%, Westmoreland County tops local population loss estimates

By JOE NAPSHA

Trib Total Media

With deaths outpacing births in Southwestern Pennsylvania, counties will continue to lose people through 2050, with Westmoreland’s 16% projected drop the second largest of any county in the Keystone State, according to a new report on population projections. “This is not surprising at all. We’ve been losing population for a while,” said Frank Gamrat, executive director of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, a Castle Shannon-based thinktank.

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