Downtown Pittsburgh Parking Rates Among Nation's Highest

PITTSBURGH, PA - If you think it’s expensive to park Downtown, you’re correct. Pittsburgh’s central business district has some of the highest major metropolitan area parking rates in the United States, according to a new parking index by Parkopedia.

The world’s leading parking service provider ranked parking rates in the nation’s 40 largest cities. The rankings are divided by hourly, daily, monthly and monthly reserved rates; the best Pittsburgh could do in any of the categories was a tie for 16th place.

To create the index, Parkopedia used data from more than 650 parking facilities that cover more than 300,000 parking spaces. Parking prices were calculated as the median of corresponding parking rates for all publicly available off-street parking facilities in a city center.

According to the index, the median hourly parking rate in Downtown Pittsburgh is $7, which ties for the 16th-highest amount in the country. Unsurprisingly, New York City has the highest rate at $27 an hour; Louisville, Orlando, Raleigh and St. Louis are tied for the lowest rate at just $2 an hour.

Pittsburgh’s median daily parking rate is $18, which makes it the country’s 14th most expensive city for daily parking. New York City again had the highest rate at $42.25 and Louisville and Columbus had the lowest at $10.

The unreserved monthly median parking rate in Pittsburgh comes in as the 9th most expensive at $235. That’s much cheaper than New York City’s highest median rate of $616, but not nearly as commuter friendly as St. Louis’ lowest monthly median rate of $85.

It’s even more expensive for reserved monthly parking. Pittsburgh’s median rate was $355, the nation’s 10th most expensive rate. Washington and Boston have the top rates at $550, while Louisville had the lowest at just $110.

You can see the full report here.

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