Youngstown, Ohio.
Typical home $70,275 (+6.0% in a year), asking rent $1,075 (+9.8%). Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Property tax and schools in Youngstown
Youngstown’s own tax page → what a home here pays, who charges it, its levies and ballot, and its schools.
Youngstown is in Mahoning County, where its property tax is set. Its homes there are in 2 school districts: Austintown Local Schools and Youngstown City. Check your own bill.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$230 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,971 +6%
- $66,304$70,275 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,546 +33%
- $52,729$70,275 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Youngstown$369
- Ohio$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Youngstown, OH rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Youngstown, OH rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Youngstown runs $555/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $573 in Apr 2026.
That is $520 a month against $1,075 rent: a $369 mortgage payment, plus $76 property tax and $75 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Youngstown
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$520
- Renting$1,075
- Mortgage only$369
Property tax · $76/mo 1.30% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Mahoning County, OH
Insurance & upkeep · $75/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio
Youngstown is a city of 60,068 people in Mahoning County. Half its households earn more than $34,408 a year and half less, against $56,942 across Mahoning County; 37% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Youngstown was 6.9% in August 2026, and Mahoning County had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Youngstown is a city in Mahoning County with a population that has long been smaller than in its steelmaking heyday. Incomes here run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are modest in price, and rents are moderate, with a majority of households owning the place they live in. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in the city are St. Elizabeth Health Center, Youngstown State University and Youngstown City Schools. Unemployment has edged up slightly over the past year, and the county has seen a small dip in the number of jobs. Most people have a fairly short commute, and relatively few work from home.
Things to do. Several cultural places sit in or beside town, including the Butler Institute of American Art, a museum, and Fellows Riverside Gardens, a botanical garden. The Liberty Theatre is another option for an evening out. For open space, Mill Creek Park, a protected area, is a short drive away.
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- 24,982households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 37%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mahoning County had 93,307 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 68 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Youngstown Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Youngstown
- St. Elizabeth Health CenterGeneral hospital1,763FTE
- Youngstown State UniversityUniversity or college1,395
- Youngstown City SchoolsSchool district1,079FTE
- Vallourec StarMini-mills, steel772
- Trivium Aluminum PackagingAerosol cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing439
- Youngstown POMail and parcel delivery363
- Latham Pool ProductsPackaged pools manufacturing244
- International Steel & CounterweightsStabilizing bars, cargo, metal, manufacturing180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,434 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Youngstown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Mahoning County and the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metro.
Youngstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Youngstown$70,275
- Ohio$245,982
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Youngstown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 37 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Youngstown22.15%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Youngstown37
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Youngstown229
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Youngstown56
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Youngstown$85,243
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Youngstown97.15%
Zip codes with a Youngstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Youngstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Youngstown
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44511 | Youngstown | 18,909 | — | $157,289 |
| 44505 | Youngstown | 16,764 | $969 | $91,922 |
| 44509 | Youngstown | 10,562 | $1,091 | $86,338 |
| 44502 | Youngstown | 9,594 | — | $54,428 |
| 44504 | Youngstown | 5,191 | — | $103,737 |
| 44507 | Youngstown | 4,140 | — | $41,342 |
| 44506 | Youngstown | 2,096 | — | $35,435 |
| 44510 | Youngstown | 2,027 | — | $51,457 |