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Sutersville is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, settled in 1867 and laid out about 1870 by Eli C. Suter, a large landowner on the riverbanks.

Eli Suter also operated Suter's Ferry, an established crossing of the Youghiogheny River that gave the young settlement its first link to the far shore.

Sutersville was incorporated in 1902 and held its first borough election on August 16, 1902, when John Kellner became its first chief burgess.

Sutersville stands on the Youghiogheny River four miles below West Newton, surrounded by Sewickley Township and facing Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, across the river.

Coal mining and coke making were Sutersville's chief industries, with shipments moving out on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad.

A roughly 700-foot bridge across the Youghiogheny River at Sutersville was built in 1896 by the Allegheny and Westmoreland Bridge Company.

The 2020 census counted 561 residents in Sutersville, down from 636 people in 267 households in 2000; the borough's population peaked at 964 in 1960 and has declined at every census since.

Sutersville covers only about 0.27 square miles of land.

Sutersville children attend the Yough School District — named after the Youghiogheny River — whose senior high school, home of the Cougars, is in Herminie.