page_title: Lehigh Valley
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Lehigh Valley / Education
caption_attribution_description: The Alumni Memorial Building at Lehigh University
context_page_description: The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau and the United States Office of Management and Budget as the Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area and referred to colloquially as The Valley, is a metropolitan region officially consisting of Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton Counties in eastern Pennsylvania and Warren County in northwestern New Jersey. The Lehigh Valley's largest city, with a population of 120,443 residents as of the 2010 U.S. Census, is Allentown. All of the region is part of Philadelphia's designated media market.
  The Lehigh Valley is the third most populous Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state of Pennsylvania with a population of 841,914 residents as of the 2018 U.S. Census Estimate, an 2.5% increase from 821,173 residents in the 2010 U.S. Census. The region is surpassed in total population in Pennsylvania only by the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh metropolitan areas. It is the 64th most populated metropolitan area in the United States.
caption: Alumni Memorial Building at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, 2005
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