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Originally Posted by Austinlee
Where are you getting these metro numbers? Your number is missing 200k residents. (2.17m vs our current 2.37m)
The current MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) population of Pittsburgh should be around 2.37m as of 2020 down from a peak of 2.76m in 1960. So the Pittsburgh metro has lost 300k since 1960.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Pittsburgh
And the CSA (Combined Statistical Area) current number is around 2.63m.
Which is ALSO currently declining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Pittsburgh
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Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington and Westmoreland.
Pittsburgh metro area was defined by the US Census Bureau as the 4 counties (minus Butler) till 1983. Then Fayette was included.
That's how the 4-county Pittsburgh grew (2020-1950):
+0,81% -3,39% -2,93% -7,35% -5,72% -0,17% +8,68%
And that's Butler County:
+5,39% +5,62% +14,52% +2,77% +15,61% +11,60% +17,80%
Since the 1950's at least, Butler was clearly a booming suburb of Pittsburgh, hence I included it.
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And that's how 5-county Pittsburgh performed (2020-2000):
+1,20% -2,68%
And the two counties of the MSA I decided to drop here:
Armstrong: -4,91% -4,77%
Fayette: -5,71% -8,10%
Pittsburgh forumers always say that all counties minus Allegheny are actually a collection of small coal towns and not Pittsburgh suburbs per se. I don't know about that, but clearly they have a case for Armstrong and Fayette. They don't behave like suburbs, but like collapsing coal counties.
That's why I decided to use the 5 counties to define "Pittsburgh metro area" here.