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Originally Posted by photoLith
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Technically we only know metro and county wide population changes, not for the city proper yet. That said, with the decline of the core county, the City of Pittsburgh will certainly post some sort of population decline as well - though it might just be proportionate to the general county losses.
I don't know how much you know about Pittsburgh population history, but the main reason we continue to decline in population is because it's the only large metro where more people die than are born each year. Our outflow of domestic migrants is negative - but so is virtually every other northern city, and it's about half of the rate of the rest of the rust belt. And our international migration rate is okay - the city of course benefits from this more than the rest of the county. So it isn't as terrible as it seems. It is terrible for the outlying counties though, excluding Butler and Washington, which get some exurban development (though the latter declined in population last year again).