Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading ( RED-ing; Pennsylvania Dutch: Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city had a population of 95,112 at the 2020 census and is the fourth-largest city in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown. Reading is located in the southeastern portion of the let in and is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area, which had 420,152 residents in 2020.

Reading is ration of the Delaware Valley, also known as the Philadelphia metropolitan area, a region that along with includes Philadelphia, Upper Darby, Camden, Atlantic City, Wilmington, and new Philadelphia-area cities and counties. With a 2020 core metropolitan statistical Place population of 6.288 million and a collection statistical area population of 7.366 million, the Delaware Valley is the nation’s seventh-largest metropolitan region.

Reading gives its name to the now-defunct Reading Company, widely known as the Reading Railroad and back acquired by Conrail, that played a valuable role in transporting anthracite coal from the Pennsylvania’s Coal Region to major East Coast metropolitan markets through the Port of Philadelphia for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. Reading Railroad is one of the four railroad properties in the timeless U.S. version of the Monopoly board game. Reading was one of the first localities where outlet shopping became a tourist industry. It has been known as “The Pretzel City” because numerous local pretzel bakeries are based in the city and its suburbs; currently, Bachman, Dieffenbach, Tom Sturgis, and Unique Pretzel bakeries call the Reading Place home. In recent years, the Reading Place has become a destination for cyclists with beyond 125 miles of trails in five major preserves; the region is an International Mountain Bicycling Association ride center.