{"id":319591,"date":"2026-11-02T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319591\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:46:07","slug":"pittsburgh-metro-to-lose-10-of-population-by-2050-new-forecast-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/319591\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh metro to lose 10% of population by 2050, new forecast predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsur.pitt.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-10\/UCSUR_Forecast_October292026.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> by University of Pittsburgh Regional Economist Chris Briem shows the Pittsburgh metro is expected to lose a significant share of its population by 2050. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The study, conducted under Pitt\u2019s Center for Social and Urban Research, has a baseline forecast that projects the eight-county Pittsburgh metro region population will decline to 2.21 million in 2050, or 10.2% below the region\u2019s 2.46 million in 2020. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">In the baseline forecast scenario, population loss is mainly driven by natural decline due to Pittsburgh\u2019s older population, which is offset by low international immigration. The baseline forecast has a net economic migration of zero. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Under the other two scenarios presented in the study, the 2050 population ranges from 2.13 million, or 13.2% below 2020 population levels, to 2.37 million, or 3.5% below the region\u2019s 2020 population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/29\/pittsburgh-population-decline-growth-forecast.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/29\/pittsburgh-population-decline-growth-forecast.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A new report by University of Pittsburgh Regional Economist Chris Briem shows the Pittsburgh metro is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[129960,129959,73,75,129958,74,104934,2553],"class_list":["post-319591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-center-for-social-and-urban-research","tag-chris-briem","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-metro-region","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-population-decline","tag-university-of-pittsburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}