Pittsburgh Featured in Financial Times (Progress: new home, vs., statistics)

[gg]

Just thought people may want to read this nice article.

Pittsburgh

[bradjl2009]

Great articles. By now, most of these article seem to give off a vibe and worded in a way that gets old, but these were interesting and great reads.

[Goodjules]

Nice to see such in-depth coverage of my new hometown.

[onwardandupward]

Another great article - thanks for posting.

[selltheburgh]

this went into further detail than many of the others. nice read.

[Antequera]

but there's still a -8.6% population growth...

[ML North]

Originally Posted by Maast

but there's still a -8.6% population growth...

Correction: there was a net population change of -8.6% between 2000 and 2010. That doen't really tell us anything about what happened in any given year, and it definitely doesn't tell us anything about current population growth. In fact, there is evidence suggesting that the population may actually be growing, but that's a discussion for another thread.

[Evergrey]

One of my pet peeves is when articles like this are clearly discussing Pittsburgh as a region... yet they use statistics for the tiny 55 sq mile City of Pittsburgh. Granted, the Metropolitan Area also saw negative population growth for the period 2000-2010 (-3%), but the Census Bureau has estimated the metropolitan region has been gaining population due to strong domestic in-migration overcoming our unique "natural decrease" starting late last decade. There are several lengthy threads in the Pittsburgh forum discussing the latest round of Census estimates released last year if anyone is interested in delving into the components of population change.

Here's one resource released in November:

Where Americans Are Moving

Pittsburgh is currently experiencing the highest rate of net in-migration of any major metro in what I'll call the "Old North" (Northeast/Midwest) other than the nation's seat of government. Of course, since we are the only major metro in the country to experience more deaths than births, and we still rank near the bottom in terms of international migrant volume... the overall population gain will appear quite low.

[gg]

I am a little surprised there hasn't been much response on this thread. This was a pretty detailed writeup. Is it too long to read for most?

In general, things seem to be going pretty well in Pittsburgh and this is a nice reminder.

[trackstar13]

GDP growth is rather low in the Burgh at 0.8% and the population growth issue is still there. Otherwise things are looking pretty good for the Burgh and I am glad to see it moving in the right direction. Here is a good resource for GDP comparison among cities:

2011 Best-Performing Cities - 200 Largest Metros

I looked at Pittsburgh vs. San Antonio and Pittsburgh did not fare well in this comparison. However, if we look at Pittsburgh vs. Cleveland or another Rust Belt City the Burgh is doing pretty well. In other words, it is always good to keep things in perspective and Pittsburgh is doing very well relatively, but when compared to cities with robust growth like San Antonio it is still lagging.