Allegheny County (the county containing Pittsburgh) publishes information on dog registrations. It’s a kind of interesting dataset – breed, zip code, color, and name for tens of thousands of dogs. Also, it’s a bit unique – a cursory search doesn’t uncover many other cities/states doing the same thing.

Here are some interesting facts about (registered) dogs in Allegheny County (edit: but very possibly excluding most Pittsburgh city dogs). I’ve also published the code for getting this data and a search tool, although see the caveats at the end.

Name Count
Bella 708
Lucy 474
Buddy 469
Molly 435
Bailey 424
Sadie 398
Max 393
Daisy 370
Charlie 328
Cooper 305

(Regarding count data, see caveats.)

Breed Count
MIXED 5255
LABRADOR RETRIEVER 3273
LAB MIX 2701
GOLDEN RETRIEVER 1681
GER SHEPHERD 1623
SHIH TZU 1218
BEAGLE 1194
CHIHUAHUA 1086
YORKSHIRE TERRIER 1041
AM PIT BULL TERRIER 1004
DACHSHUND 960
BOXER 931
BEAGLE MIX 920
GER SHEPHERD MIX 825

(Regarding count data, see caveats.)

Gender Breakdown for Dogs in Allegheny County

Pittsburgh has 20,882 female registered dogs, 18,959 male regisered dogs, and 7,342 dogs whose registration data doesn’t provide any gender information.

Percent of Dogs Neutered/Spayed

39841 out of 47183 doggos are spayed or neutered. That’s about 84% of registered dogs.

Cutest Dogs in Pittsburgh

According to my extenstive data analysis using Deep Learning AI magic sauce, the cutest male dog in Pittsburgh is this one:


Shadow

And the cutest female dog is this one:


Maddie enjoying her new toy

Caveats

Two caveats:

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