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New Census data had some colorful light to shed on our demographic situation.

Pittsburgh is still losing people, that's the bad news, but...

"The city of Pittsburgh's share of new residents, about 4 percent, was in the middle of the pack of 198 U.S. cities, higher than New York, Los Angeles, Chicago -- and Cleveland, where new residents make up a paltry 1 percent of the city's population," reports the Trib.

Hello? We have more new residents as a percentage than New York and LA???? If it's accurate, it's big big news.

Also, the data shows Pittsburgh's small Hispanic population is growing--about 12 percent of Hispanics in the city last year lived outside of Pennsylvania the year before.

In other good news, the Post-Gazette says "Pittsburgh has cracked a national business publication's top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas as a potential site for companies looking to expand or relocate.

The bimonthly magazine Expansion Management ranked the region ninth among 362 metro areas in its fourth annual list of the best places to locate a company."

We now rank with such hot spots as Austin and Seattle!