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.

Ten Most Popular Dog Names in Allegheny County

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.)

Most Popular Breeds in Allegheny County

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:

Apparently Pittsburgh itself is excluded from this data.

I spent about one beer on this project. There’s a really good chance I double-counted everything and made other silly errors.

There’s a Reddit thread where you can leave comments.