Race and ethnicity patterns in the United States are significantly impacted by migration flows. Historically low migration rates into the Pittsburgh region have resulted in low overall diversity rates and an extremely small Hispanic community. The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area is much less racially and ethnically diverse than its benchmark peers. According to the latest... More
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Racial & Ethnic Diversity of Regions
Demographics
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Race and Ethnicity
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Foreign Born Population
Pittsburgh has the smallest percentage of foreign-born residents of all the benchmark regions at 3.8 percent, down 0.1 percent from 2015. The percentage of Pittsburgh’s foreign-born population that arrived in the United States in 2010 or later, however, was 33.2 percent in 2016, up 3.9 percent from the year before. International immigration has been comparatively low... More
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Annual Poverty Rates
Poverty rates in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area are below average when compared to the benchmark regions. According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 10.8 percent of Pittsburgh residents were below the poverty level in 2016, a decrease of 1.5 percent compared to 2015 and the second-largest decrease of all benchmark regions. The share... More
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Age of Population
Pittsburgh remains one of the oldest metropolitan regions in the nation. The selective out migration of younger workers shifted the age structure of the region in the 1980’s. Today the impact is being felt not only in terms of the disproportionate elderly population, but also in the loss of people from the follow-on generations. Pittsburgh’s... More
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Residential & County Migration
Residential migration data are a percentage of the population that lived in a different house one year earlier, while county data refers to the percentage of the population that lived in a different county one year earlier. The Pittsburgh region has low rates of residential and county migration. More
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Racial & Ethnic Diversity of Counties
Demographics
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Race and Ethnicity
The demographic portrait of the seven-county Pittsburgh region’s population is becoming less white and more diverse, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates. From 2012 to 2017, Allegheny County’s Asian population increased 23.9 percent to 48,396 residents, and the county’s Hispanic population grew 20.3 percent to 25,647 people. Conversely, Allegheny County’s African American population... More
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Annual Population Estimates
The US Census Bureau each year publishes annual estimates of total resident population as well as the demographic components of change (births, deaths, and migration) for states, counties, metropolitan statistical areas and municipalities. In the United States, births and deaths are recorded with relative accuracy and completeness. The Census Bureau estimates two sub-components of migration: domestic... More
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Annual Population Estimates – Pittsburgh Region Counties
The US Census Bureau each year publishes annual estimates of total resident population as well as the demographic components of change (births, deaths, and migration) for states, counties, metropolitan statistical areas and municipalities. In the United States, births and deaths are recorded with relative accuracy and completeness. The Census Bureau estimates two sub-components of migration:... More
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Decennial Census Population
The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area had 2,431,087 people in 2000; by 2010, that number was down by 74,802 to 2,356,285. Cleveland and Detroit also saw population declines over the decade. More