PITTSBURGH'S INCREASE IN SAVINGS
Approximately $505 is now on deposit in savings accounts
of the banks of Metropolitan Pittsburgh for each resident of
the community, it is estimated on the basis of thrift gains of
the past few years.
The area’s gain in per capita savings is shown in records
collected by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Penn-
sylvania State Government. This gain is shown year by year
in the following table in which the averages for 1928 and 1929
are unofficial estimates:
191%
1920
1921
152
192:
1924,
Per Increase
Canita Above
EST 0009
15
Ded
Boh
1925
1926
1927
1923
1929
Par
BU
505
Increase
bove
J
ay
33
07
1139,
PITTSBURGH'S INCOME TAXPAYERS
Seventy-eight of each 1,000 residents of Pittsburgh receive
sufficiently large incomes to require them to file tax returns
with the Federal Government at Washington.
Pittsburgh leads the principal industrial cities of the
nation in the number of income taxpayers in proportion to
population, it is shown by the newest analysis to be made by
:he U. 8. Treasury department.
Detroit has 72 income taxpayers to each 1,000 residents.
Boston 54, St. Louis 62, Philadelphia 48 and Cleveland 39.
Pittsburgh’s leadership in this respect indicates that
prosperity is more widely distributed among the families of
that city than among those of the other industrial communities
listed above.