Pittsburgh as cool city and hot destination (Washington, Denver: tech jobs, college)

[BrianTH]

Seriously:

Burgh Diaspora - Economic Development From Geographic Mobility

News Headlines (http://www.cnbc.com/id/45059773 - broken link)

Other bright spots in the housing bust included urban, high-tech college meccas that are proving to be a draw for young, college-educated adults of all races and ethnicities. The data covering 2008-2010 show that Raleigh, N.C.; Austin, San Antonio and Houston, Texas; Denver; Pittsburgh; and Baltimore and Washington, D.C., all of which tend to promise specialized tech jobs and hip lifestyles, had some of the biggest gains in residents.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Edit: more details:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...ion-to-metros/

Pittsburgh was #15 with an "estimated annual net migration of people age 25-34" in 2008-10 of 2,008. That's a change of +6,768 since 2005-07, good for #7.

[raubre]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

Seriously:

Burgh Diaspora - Economic Development From Geographic Mobility

News Headlines (http://www.cnbc.com/id/45059773 - broken link)



Yes, you read that correctly.

Edit: more details:

Migration to metro areas - The Washington Post

Pittsburgh was #15 with an "estimated annual net migration of people age 25-34" in 2008-10 of 2,008. That's a change of +6,768 since 2005-07, good for #7.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by raubre

Seventh-largest improvement in numbers of all MSAs on that list.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Seventh-largest improvement in numbers of all MSAs on that list.

Indeed, and that is in raw numbers--I haven't done the calculations, but eyeballing it, in percentage terms I think we could be as high as #2 after New Orleans, which is a special case because of Katrina.

Generally I know that people have been skeptical about the notion that the not-so-good 2010 versus 2000 numbers could be hiding a turnaround late in the decade. But if the turnaround is big enough, that can in fact happen.

[pman]

so this is the msa, not the city?

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by pman

so this is the msa, not the city?

That's MSA.

For the City, the total population estimates are:

2008-10: 306,668

2005-07: 296,324

Age 25-34:

2008-10: 50,683

2005-07: 38,034

I'm not sure what methodology they used, but I would think you could get close to their estimated annual changes just by taking the difference and dividing by three. Doing that, the City had a net annual gain of 4,216 in age 25-34 between 2005-07 and 2008-10.

That's over twice the number the Post had for the whole MSA. That means either I am doing things wrong, or the City's net gain was more than making up for a net loss in the rest of the MSA.

Edit: Oh, and all these numbers might be a bit off due to a methodology change between 2005 and 2006 in the ACS. But it would infect all these comparisons, and is just one of the three years of the 2005-07 sample anyway, so shouldn't have much impact on the relative rankings.