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Year / Total Population / Black / %of total

Pittsburgh
1910 533,905 24,623 4.8%
1920 588,343 37,725 6.4%
1930 669,817 54,983 8.2%

Homestead
1910 18,713 867 4.6%
1920 20,452 1,814 8.8%
1930 20,141 3,367 16.2%

Rankin
1910 6,042 443 7.3%
1920 7,301 873 11.9%
1930 7,956 1,556 19.5%

Braddock
1910 19,357 421 2.1%
1920 20,879 735 3.5%
1930 19,329 2,224 11.5%

No. Braddock
1910 11,824 287 2.4%
1920 14,928 393 2.6%
1930 16,782 488 2.9%

Duquesne
1910 15,727 246 1.5%
1920 19,011 817 4.2%
1930 21,396 1,817 8.4%

McKeesport
1910 42,694 799 1.8%
1920 46,781 928 1.9%
1930 54,632 1,893 3.4%

Clairton
1910 (no data)
1920 6,264 621 9.9%
1930 15,291 2,070 13.6%

Donora
1910 8,174 359 4.4%
1920 14,131 855 6%
1930 13,905 986 7%

Monessen
1910 11,775 232 1.9%
1920 18,179 588 3.2%
1930 20,268 1,201 5.9%

Farrell
1910 (no data)
1920 15,586 1,349 8.4%
1930 14,359 1,606 11.1%

Sharon
1910 15,270 194 1.2%
1920 21,747 701 3.2%
1930 25,908 506 1.9%

Aliquippa
1910 (no data)
1920 2,931 5 .01%
1930 27,116 2,592 9.5%

New Castle
1910 36,280 529 1.4%
1920 44,938 867 1.9%
1930 48,674 1,572 3.2%

Johnstown
1910 55,482 442 .07%
1920 67,327 1,650 2.4%
1930 66,993 1,444 2.1%

Vandergrift
1910 3,876 28 .06%
1920 9,351 65 .06%
1930 11,479 160 .01%

TOTALS
1910 779,119 29,470 3%
1920 940,149 49,986 5%
1930 1,053,946 78,465 7%

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Negro Population in the United States, 1790-1915, pp. 102-103; U.S., Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Negroes in the United States, 1920-1932, pp. 63-64; U.S., Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920: Population, 1:285, 292, 294-295, 586-587.



Credit: Dennis Dickerson, Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980 (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986), p. 39. Percentages corrected.