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Welcome to the McKees Rocks Home page. The McKees Rocks Home page provides as much information as possible on McKees Rocks. Knowing McKees Rocks’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within McKees Rocks’s Home page, you will also find McKees Rocks’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

McKees Rocks has a population of 5892. 48.2% of McKees Rocks’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.8 are female. 16% of McKees Rocks is married and 43.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $53,123, and the average rent is $739. Household median income in McKees Rocks is $31,130, and the individual median income is $23,610. McKees Rocks’s Ethnic is the following: White(51.3%), Black(32%), Other(10.9%), Hispanic(4.8%), Asian(3%), Multiple(2.8%).


McKees Rocks, also known as "The Rocks", is a borough in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania, along the south bank of the Ohio River. Part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, its population was 5,920 at the time of the 2020 census.The borough is within the Sto-Rox School District, which serves McKees Rocks and neighboring Stowe Township.


The local high school is Sto-Rox High School. The Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad is located in an area along the river known as the "Bottoms". The McKees Rocks Bridge, which carries traffic between McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh, is the longest bridge in Allegheny County, at 7,293 feet (2,223 m).


McKees Rocks has one of the largest Indian mounds in the state, built by the Adena and Hopewell peoples a thousand years before Europeans entered the area. In the past, the city was known for its extensive iron and steel interests. There were large railroad machine shops and manufacturers of locomotives and freight and passenger cars.


Other factories produced springs, enamel ware, lumber, wall materials, plaster, nuts and bolts, malleable castings, chains and forgings, tin ware, concrete, and cigars. McKees Rocks is also known as the birthplace of former Ohio Governor John Kasich and late television salesperson Billy Mays.


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