PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh is at the top of the list of America's most livable cities.

To come up with the rankings, Rand McNally's "Places Rated Almanac" judges 379 metropolitan areas in nine categories, including cost of living, transportation, jobs and education.

Pittsburghers said they're not surprised their city is taking top honors, reported WPXI-TV.

Mark Foerster, of Swissvale, said, "It's no surprise, there's so much going on. You see the new stadiums, of course PNC Park, Heinz Field, the new Pens Arena. It's just amazing it's taken the world this long to figure out we're No. 1."

The last time Pittsburgh claimed the No. 1 spot was in 1985. The city was 12th in 1999, the last year the rankings were done.

Five of the top 10 cities are in the Northeast, four are on the West Coast and one is in the upper Midwest. None is in the Sunbelt.

The good news for Pittsburgh comes amid recent bleak Census Bureau data that showed about 60,000 people had left the seven-county Pittsburgh metro area from 2000 to 2006.

Only metro areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina had seen greater declines.

Here are the other top 10 most livable cities:

2. San Francisco
3. Seattle, Wash.
4. Portland, Ore.
5. Philadelphia.
6. Rochester, N.Y.
7. Washington, D.C.
8. San Jose-Sunnyvale, Calif.
9. Boston
10. Madison, Wis.