Pittsburgh is a city in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County. Pittsburgh will have 293,501 residents by 2024. It serves as Allegheny County’s county seat as well. Pittsburgh’s population decreased by -3.06% from the most recent census, which recorded 302,777 people in 2020, and the city is currently falling at a pace of -0.77% annually.

Pittsburgh has an average household income of $80,248 and a 19.73% poverty rate. In recent years, the median property value has been – and the median monthly rental prices have been -. In Pittsburgh, the average age is 33.7 years, with 33.1 years for men and 34.6 years for women.

Pittsburgh is the second-biggest city in Pennsylvania and the center of the largest Ohio Valley and Appalachia metropolitan combined statistical area. Known as the Steel City for its 300 steel-based companies and the City of Bridges for a world-record 446 bridges, Pittsburgh has earned the title of the “most livable city” by Forbes and The Economist and a reputation for its environmental building design.

This may sound contradictory until you understand that other cities like Houston, Phoenix, and San Diego are continuously annexing their suburbs and increasing their land areas, whereas Pittsburgh’s city limits have remained almost intact from a century ago. Pittsburgh’s city limits were last increased in 1907.

Pittsburgh’s population would increase from about 300,000 to over a million if its city limits expanded to about the same area as any other city in the top 10, making it the ninth largest city in the US—a significant leap from 56.

It means that although Pittsburgh looks to be getting smaller on paper, it is expanding considerably as more people relocate to the suburbs. There are currently 5,540 people living in the city per square mile (2,140 per square kilometer). 1.733 million people are living in the urban area, 2.36 million in the metro area, and an estimated 2.62 million people living in the Combined Statistical Region (CSA) as of 2013.