Northeast · Pennsylvania · pop 303K
Pittsburgh, PA
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in PA, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,207 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,054 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,699 left over.
Expect summer highs near 83°F, winter lows around 22°F, and about 160 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($235,000) is about 3.9× the median household income.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (3.7% unemployment).
The Pittsburgh fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,508/mo
Typical rent
$1,240/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.9×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,160/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,240/mo
- Median home value
- $235,000
- Median household income
- $60,000
- Population
- 303,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.7%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.8%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 640
- Property crime rate
- 2,900
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 83°F
- Avg. winter low
- 22°F
- Sunny days / year
- 160
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈4/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈40/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈12/yr
- Annual rain
- 38"
- Annual snow
- 42"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+20
- Int'l airport
- ≈18 mi
- Walkability
- 62/100
- Disaster risk
- 30/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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