Population

This week, the Census Bureau released 2020 estimates of the population for counties and metropolitan areas across the nation. These estimates are separate from the forthcoming results of the decennial census and are not based on a complete enumeration of the population but are compiled from administrative and other data sources that can be updated...

Monday, November 11th is Veterans Day in the United States. This is just a short update of a post from last year compiling recent trends in the population of veterans who reside in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Demographic change is not new for the city of Pittsburgh, but there is evidence some longstanding trends have reversed in the most recent years. The graphics below combines data on population by race from the most recent five decennial censuses (1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010) along with population estimates compiled from the American Community...

The growing population of young professionals has been at the core of the urban growth story for many American cities over the recent decade. Aging of the large cohort of the millennial generation, generally considered those born between the early 1980s through the early 2000s, has had a disproportionate impact in many urban areas. Likewise for the...

The Pittsburgh region is the home to just under 154 thousand veterans as of 2017, but the size and composition of local veterans is changing. The total number of regional veterans has declined nearly 24% between 2010 and 2017, reflecting continuing declines in older veterans with service primarily during World War II or the Korean War.