McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Demographics and culture
The population has fallen to little more than a third of its wartime high, with the 2010 census recording fewer than twenty thousand residents in contrast to the fifty-five thousand of 1940.

McKeesport, Pennsylvania

Section Title: Demographics and culture
Table Section Text: The population has fallen to little more than a third of its wartime high, with the 2010 census recording fewer than twenty thousand residents in contrast to the fifty-five thousand of 1940.

Historical population

Census	Pop.	%±

1850	1,392	—

1860	2,166	55.6%

1870	2,523	16.5%

1880	8,212	225.5%

1890	20,741	152.6%

1900	34,227	65.0%

1910	42,694	24.7%

1920	46,781	9.6%

1930	54,632	16.8%

1940	55,355	1.3%

1950	51,502	−7.0%

1960	45,489	−11.7%

1970	37,977	−16.5%

1980	31,012	−18.3%

1990	26,016	−16.1%

2000	24,040	−7.6%

2010	19,731	−17.9%

Est. 2017	19,245	−2.5%

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McKeesport's population was 34,227 in 1900; 42,694 in 1910; and 55,355 in 1940.

final_sentence: McKeesport's population was 34,227 in 1900; 42,694 in 1910; and 55,355 in 1940.