Pittsburgh MSA is growing (Philadelphia, Monroe: live in, buses, trains)

[pman]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

Edit: I also looked at the country's 50 fastest growing Negros and morgantown was there was the population up 2" over a year.

so the country's fastest growing negros grew 2 inches in a year?

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by pman

so the country's fastest growing negros grew 2 inches in a year?

I was half asleep on my Kindle Fire. What I meant was Morgantown was one of the fastest growing metros in the country growing at 2% over the past year.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

I have no idea why it would do that, I wasn't fully up so maybe I pressed a wrong key. That was a little awkward.

At a guess you typed "Netros".

Or your Kindle is just a huge racist.

[ElijahAstin]

Originally Posted by eschaton

Even assuming that the views of the local yokels who fled to Peters and Cranberry have some merit (which I don't), do they really think people relocating from another city are going to hear about their characterless suburban tract housing and overwhelmingly locate there? Most of the reason people do so is tax flight (supposedly), and migrating from outside the region, the real estate prices here seem so low that an outsider probably wouldn't give a crap about the taxes.

There's characterless suburban tract housing all over the country, and it happens to appeal to quite a lot of people. I'm not a huge fan of Cranberry or Peters myself, but I recognize that places like these serve a purpose. Higher millage rates may be canceled out by lower property values as far as year-to-year expenses go, but the key difference between a property tax and mortgage payments is that you can recoup much of the latter down the line.

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

At a guess you typed "Netros".

Or your Kindle is just a huge racist.

Probably the first. Auto correct can have a mind of its own.

[Craziaskowboi]

Here's how the counties in the Pittsburgh MSA shake out individually...


Allegheny County

2010: 1,223,348
2011: 1,227,066
Change: +3,718

Armstrong County

2010: 68,941
2011: 68,568
Change: -373

Beaver County

2010: 170,539
2011: 170,414
Change: -125

Butler County

2010: 183,862
2011: 184,848
Change: +986

Fayette County

2010: 136,606
2011: 136,097
Change: -509

Washington County

2010: 207,820
2011: 208,282
Change: +462

Westmoreland County

2010: 365,169
2011: 364,471
Change: -698

Pittsburgh MSA

2010: 2,356,285
2011: 2,359,746
Change: +3,461

Pittsburgh MSA (minus Allegheny County)

2010: 1,132,937
2011: 1,132,680
Change: -257

[AaronPGH]

Amazing news.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by AaronPGH

Amazing news.

Somewhere,* Bill Steigerwald cries.

(*: Peters Township.)

[bradjl2009]

I'm surprised to see westmoreland county lost that many people. I would have thought they've been gaining people too with their exburbs and other nice small towns. I remember though when the 2010 census data cane in they over estimated that county's population loss by 4,000 people see maybe they're overstating against.

[escilade18]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

I'm surprised to see westmoreland county lost that many people. I would have thought they've been gaining people too with their exburbs and other nice small towns. I remember though when the 2010 census data cane in they over estimated that county's population loss by 4,000 people see maybe they're overstating against.

I believe that much of the population loss is in the rural eastern end of the county and is offsetting even the gains made by the exurbs in the western end of the county. It still has a large enough population that the numbers lost isn't anything to worry about (Fayette County is another story and I understand completely why people are fleeing from there)