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Lower Burrell is a third-class city in Westmoreland County, located about 18 miles northeast of downtown Pittsburgh in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

Lower Burrell began as part of Burrell Township, which was carved out of Allegheny Township in 1852 and named for Judge Jeremiah Murry Burrell; the township was split into Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell in 1879.

The present-day cities of New Kensington and Arnold were once part of Lower Burrell Township before becoming municipalities of their own.

Residents voted to make Lower Burrell a third-class city in 1959, and it is governed by a commission in which the mayor holds only one vote and no veto power.

The 2020 census counted 11,758 people in Lower Burrell, living in about 5,212 households averaging about 2.2 people each.

Lower Burrell grew from a quiet farming community into a coal-mining and manufacturing town, then stagnated along with much of western Pennsylvania when heavy industry collapsed in the 1980s.

Lower Burrell is informally divided into neighborhoods including Bon Air, Braeburn, Braeburn Heights, Central City, Edgecliff, Gladeview, Indian Fields and Kinloch.

The Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 4, on the city's riverfront, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Students in Lower Burrell attend the Burrell School District, and Burrell High School's Buccaneers wrestling program is a WPIAL power that won its 19th district team title in 2025.

Lower Burrell is the hometown of Pete Babando, who played for the Detroit Red Wings team that won the 1950 Stanley Cup, and Penn State New Kensington sits just outside the city in Upper Burrell Township.