12 Facts About Philadelphia County

Philadelphia County is the most populous county in the U S state of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia County is the core county in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Combined Statistical Area, located along the lower Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers, within the Northeast megalopolis.

Philadelphia County is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley, the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States with an estimated population of 6.

Penn wanted Philadelphia County, meaning "love brotherly", to be a place where religious tolerance and the freedom to worship were ensured.

Philadelphia County's name is shared with an ancient city in Asia Minor mentioned by the Bible's Book of Revelation.

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When established, Philadelphia County consisted mainly of the area from the Delaware River west between the Schuylkill River to the south and the border with Bucks County to the north; the western boundary was undefined.

City of Philadelphia County, as planned by Penn, comprised only that portion of the present day city situated between South and Vine Streets and the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.

Philadelphia County offices were merged with the city government in 1952, effectively eliminating the county as a government.

Exceptions include restrictions stated in the Home Rule Charter of Philadelphia County, Act of Consolidation, 1854, and subsequent legislation.

Philadelphia County has become racially and ethnically diverse over the years, and this process continues.

The Northeast section of the city, and more significantly the suburbs of Philadelphia County, contain large numbers of Indian Americans and Mexicans.

Philadelphia County is overwhelmingly Democratic, having given the Democratic presidential candidate their largest percentage of any county in Pennsylvania in every election since 1968.