Allegheny County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
Air Quality Index (AQI) level in 2010 was 38.1. This is about average.
Lead (Pb) [µ/m3] level in 2009 was 0.0164. This is better than average. Closest monitor was 2.2 miles away from the city center.
Carbon Monoxide (CO) [ppm] level in 2010 was 0.223. This is significantly better than average. Closest monitor was 2.0 miles away from the city center.
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 3.70. This is significantly worse than average. Closest monitor was 2.2 miles away from the city center.
Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) [ppb] level in 2010 was 11.7. This is worse than average. Closest monitor was 2.2 miles away from the city center.
Ozone [ppb] level in 2010 was 25.1. This is about average. Closest monitor was 2.8 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM10) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 18.5. This is about average. Closest monitor was 1.1 miles away from the city center.
Particulate Matter (PM2.5) [µ/m3] level in 2010 was 11.6. This is worse than average. Closest monitor was 2.4 miles away from the city center.
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 22.3%
(19.5% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 24.5% for Black residents, 0.0% for other race residents, 15.5% for two or more races residents)
Average household size:
| This borough: | 2.3 people | | Pennsylvania: | 2.4 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This borough: | 56.8% | | Whole state: | 67.5% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This borough: | 8.6% | | Whole state: | 5.0% |
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Mount Oliver, PA
Mount Oliver compared to Pennsylvania state average:
- Median house value below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage below state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in above state average.
- House age significantly above state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher significantly below state average.
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Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (96%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Allegheny County Pennsylvania:
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Religion statistics for Mount Oliver (based on Allegheny County data)
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 71.85%
| Here |  | 71.9% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Catholic Church | Presbyterian Church (USA) | United Methodist Church | Jewish | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
| Adherents | 68.7% | 6.5% | 5.2% | 3.8% | 3.5% |
| Congregations | 21.2% | 15.8% | 11.1% | 2.9% | 9.2% |
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| Name | American Baptist Churches in the USA | Episcopal Church | Assemblies of God | Muslim Estimate | Other |
| Adherents | 1.7% | 1.6% | 1.1% | 0.9% | 7.1% |
| Congregations | 4.1% | 3.8% | 2.6% | 0.7% | 28.7% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 209 | Here: | 1.72 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 2.04 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of supercenters and club stores: 11 | This county: | 0.09 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 0.09 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 133 | Allegheny County: | 1.09 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 0.88 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 297 | This county: | 2.44 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 2.52 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 993 | Allegheny County: | 8.15 / 10,000 pop. | | Pennsylvania: | 7.12 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | Allegheny County: | 8.7% | | State: | 9.1% |
Low-income preschool obesity rate: | This county: | 12.9% | | Pennsylvania: | 11.5% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
2 | $4,959 | $29,754 | 0 | $0 |
| Other Government Administration |
1 | $2,384 | $28,608 | 8 | $3,150 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
11 | $32,183 | $35,109 | 0 | $0 |
| Police - Other |
2 | $4,539 | $27,234 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
3 | $9,432 | $37,728 | 0 | $0 |
| Other and Unallocable |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $120 |
| Totals for Government |
19 | $53,497 | $33,788 | 9 | $3,270 |
Mount Oliver government finances in 2002:
- Bond Fund - Cash & Deposits: $162,000 ($47.58)
- Charges - Sewerage: $402,000 ($118.06)
Parking Facilities: $48,000 ($14.10)
All Other: $33,000 ($9.69)
Solid Waste Management: $28,000 ($8.22)
Parks & Recreation: $1,000 ($0.29)
- Construction - Sewerage: $883,000 ($259.32)
Regular Highways: $480,000 ($140.97)
- Current Operations - Regular Highways: $693,000 ($203.52)
General - Other: $551,000 ($161.82)
Police Protection: $402,000 ($118.06)
Sewerage: $400,000 ($117.47)
Central Staff Services: $257,000 ($75.48)
Solid Waste Management: $144,000 ($42.29)
General Public Buildings: $62,000 ($18.21)
Fire Protection: $51,000 ($14.98)
Housing & Community Development: $48,000 ($14.10)
Financial Administration: $43,000 ($12.63)
Judicial and Legal Services: $42,000 ($12.33)
Parks & Recreation: $37,000 ($10.87)
Protective Inspection and Regulation, NEC: $28,000 ($8.22)
Health Services - Other: $13,000 ($3.82)
- Employee Retirement - Total Cash & Deposits: $856,000 ($251.40)
Benefit Payments: $37,000 ($10.87)
Interest Revenue: $22,000 ($6.46)
From Other Government: $8,000 ($2.35)
From Local Government: $2,000 ($0.59)
- General - Interest on Debt: $2,000 ($0.59)
- Local Intergovernmental - All Other: $129,000 ($37.89)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding, NEC: $41,000 ($12.04)
- Long Term Debt Issue, Unspecified - Other NEC: $1,543,000 ($453.16)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding - Full Faith & Credit - Other, NEC: $1,507,000 ($442.58)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Other, NEC: $77,000 ($22.61)
- Miscellaneous - General Revenue, NEC: $146,000 ($42.88)
Interest Earnings: $13,000 ($3.82)
- Other Capital Outlay - Police Protection: $16,000 ($4.70)
General - Other: $7,000 ($2.06)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $312,000 ($91.63)
- Short Term Debt Outstanding - Beginning: $250,000 ($73.42)
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $58,000 ($17.03)
All Other: $37,000 ($10.87)
General Support: $3,000 ($0.88)
- Tax - Property: $515,000 ($151.25)
Individual Income: $360,000 ($105.73)
NEC: $109,000 ($32.01)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $469,000 ($137.74)
3.69% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($47,896 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 3.69% | | Pennsylvania average: | 4.99% |
0.21% of residents moved from foreign countries ($718 average AGI)| Allegheny County: | 0.21% | | Pennsylvania average: | 0.12% |
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
4.31% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($54,428 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 4.31% | | Pennsylvania average: | 5.08% |
0.08% of residents moved to foreign countries ($706 average AGI)| Allegheny County: | 0.08% | | Pennsylvania average: | 0.05% |
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Mount Oliver:
- WEAE (1250 AM; 5 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: ABC, INC.)
- KDKA (1020 AM; 50 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: INFINITY BROADCASTING OPERATIONS, INC.)
- WPTT (1360 AM; 5 kW; MCKEESPORT, PA; Owner: RENDA BROADCASTING CORPORATION OF NEVADA)
- WJAS (1320 AM; 6 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: RENDA BROADCASTING CORP. OF NEVADA)
- WPIT (730 AM; 5 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: PENNSYLVANIA MEDIA ASSOCIATES, INC.)
- WBGG (970 AM; 5 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WZUM (1590 AM; 4 kW; CARNEGIE, PA; Owner: HORVATH BROADCASTING, L.L.C.)
- KQV (1410 AM; 5 kW; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CALVARY, INC.)
- WPGR (1510 AM; 5 kW; MONROEVILLE, PA; Owner: MCL/ MCM- INC.)
- WWCS (540 AM; 5 kW; CANONSBURG, PA; Owner: BIRACH BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WAMO (860 AM; 1 kW; MILLVALE, PA; Owner: SHERIDAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
- WKHB (620 AM; 6 kW; IRWIN, PA; Owner: BROADCAST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- WWVA (1170 AM; 53 kW; WHEELING, WV; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
Strongest FM radio stations in Mount Oliver:
- WKST-FM (96.1 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WDUQ (90.5 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY)
- WQED-FM (89.3 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WQED MULTIMEDIA)
- WSHH (99.7 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: RENDA B/CING CORP. OF NEVADA)
- WWSW-FM (94.5 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: AMFM RADIO LICENSES, L.L.C.)
- WBZZ (93.7 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: INFINITY RADIO SUBSIDIARY OPERATIONS INC.)
- WRRK (96.9 FM; BRADDOCK, PA; Owner: WPNT INC)
- WDSY-FM (107.9 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: INFINITY RADIO SUBSIDIARY OPERATIONS INC.)
- WPTS-FM (92.1 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: UNIV. OF PITTSBURGH COMMONWEALTH SYS)
- WYEP-FM (91.3 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: PITTSBURGH COMM. B/CING. CORP.)
- WLTJ (92.9 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WPNT, INC.)
- WJJJ (104.7 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WDVE (102.5 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WOGI (98.3 FM; DUQUESNE, PA; Owner: KEYMARKET LICENSES, LLC)
- WORD-FM (101.5 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: PENNSYLVANIA MEDIA ASSOCIATES, INC.)
- WXDX-FM (105.9 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- WZPT (100.7 FM; NEW KENSINGTON, PA; Owner: INFINITY RADIO SUBSIDIARY OPERATIONS INC.)
- WRCT (88.3 FM; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CARNEGIE-MELLON STUDENT GOVT. CORP.)
- WSSZ (107.1 FM; GREENSBURG, PA; Owner: MCL/MCM-INC.)
- WOGF (104.3 FM; EAST LIVERPOOL, OH; Owner: KEYMARKET LICENSES, LLC)
TV broadcast stations around Mount Oliver:
- WBGN-LP (Channel 59; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: BRUNO GOODWORTH NETWORK, INC.)
- WPTG-LP (Channel 69; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: ABACUS TELEVISION)
- WQEX (Channel 16; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WQED MULTIMEDIA)
- W65CG (Channel 65; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
- WPXI (Channel 11; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WPXI-TV HOLDINGS, INC.)
- WQED (Channel 13; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WQED MULTIMEDIA)
- W61CC (Channel 61; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: THE VIDEOHOUSE, INC.)
- WIIC-LP (Channel 29; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: ABACUS TELEVISION)
- W63AU (Channel 63; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: THE BON-TELE NETWORK, INC.)
- WBYD-CA (Channel 35; JOHNSTOWN, PA; Owner: BENJAMIN PEREZ)
- KDKA-TV (Channel 2; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: CBS BROADCASTING INC.)
- WPGH-TV (Channel 53; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WPGH LICENSEE, LLC)
- WBPA-LP (Channel 29; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC)
- WPCB-TV (Channel 40; GREENSBURG, PA; Owner: CORNERSTONE TELEVISION, INC.)
- WTAE-TV (Channel 4; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WTAE HEARST-ARGYLE TV, INC. (CA CORP.))
- WCWB (Channel 22; PITTSBURGH, PA; Owner: WCWB LICENSEE, LLC)
- WTOV-TV (Channel 9; STEUBENVILLE, OH; Owner: WTOV-TV HOLDINGS, INC.)
- W66BQ (Channel 66; BEAVER, PA; Owner: BRUNO-GOODWORTH NETWORK, INC.)
- W25CI (Channel 25; STEUBENVILLE, OH; Owner: ABACUS TELEVISION)
- W57BH (Channel 57; WEIRTON, WV; Owner: TURNPIKE TELEVISION)
- W26AV (Channel 26; CHARLEROI, PA; Owner: DEBRA GOODWORTH)
- W20AN (Channel 20; WASHINGTON, PA; Owner: TURNPIKE TELEVISION)
- WQVC-CA (Channel 28; GREENSBURG, PA; Owner: ABACUS TELEVISION)
Fatal road traffic accident statistics for 1975 - 2009 (per 100,000 population)
Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania:
- Fatal accident count: 5
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 5
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 2
- Fatalities: 5
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 9
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 2
Pennsylvania average:
- Fatal accident count: 87
- Vehicles involved in fatal accidents: 126
- Fatal accidents caused by drunken drivers: 26
- Fatalities: 94
- Persons involved in fatal accidents: 220
- Pedestrians involved in fatal accidents: 17
Mount Oliver fatal accident list:
Dec 17, 2005 06:38 PM, Hays Av, Brownsville Rd, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Pedestrians: 1, Fatalities: 1
Apr 9, 2001 01:11 PM, Brownsville Rd, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Pedestrians: 1, Fatalities: 1
Dec 13, 1989 08:05 PM, Brownsvill, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1
Jun 11, 1978 03:00 AM, Vehicles: 2, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1, Drunken drivers: 2
Oct 17, 1975 01:30 PM, Vehicles: 1, Persons: 2, Fatalities: 1
Businesses in Mount Oliver, PA
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