Youngtown, Arizona.
Typical home $295,825 (-2.8% in a year), asking rent $1,429 . Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$835 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,596 -3%
- $304,421$295,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,023 +7%
- $275,802$295,825 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.
- Youngtown$1,553
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Youngtown, AZ fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Youngtown, Maricopa County, Arizona
Youngtown is a town of 7,056 people in Maricopa County. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Maricopa County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Youngtown is a small town in Maricopa County, and its residents are older than in much of the country, with a median age well above what you'd find in most places. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home is valued below what is common across the county's larger cities. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole, and incomes run below the county's.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Across Maricopa County, some of the largest workplaces are the City of Phoenix, Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic Hospital. Commutes are of a middling length, and only a small number of people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and job numbers have barely grown.
Things to do. State Farm Stadium, a stadium, is a short drive away, as is Camelback Ranch, another stadium. For a day out, the Phoenix Zoo and the Heard Museum are both a longer drive away. Winters are mild and rarely see snow, summers are very hot, and the yearly rainfall is slight, so outdoor outings are most comfortable in the cooler months.
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- 2,607households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Maricopa County had 2,289,324 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 64° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 105° and lows near 80°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Youngtown weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maricopa County
- City of PhoenixPolice and fire departments, combined15,698
- Arizona State University Campus ImmersionUniversity or college14,448
- Educational ServicesEducational support services8,425
- IES CommunicationsLow voltage electrical work8,143
- Mayo Clinic HospitalGeneral hospital7,876FTE
- Grand Canyon UniversityUniversity or college7,773
- Mesa Unified District (4235)School district7,509FTE
- Phoenix Children's HospitalChildren's hospital5,836FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3,542 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 658,585 people in all across the county; Youngtown has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Youngtown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Maricopa County and the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ metro.
Youngtown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Youngtown$295,825
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Youngtown listings — 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Youngtown19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Youngtown7
Zip codes with a Youngtown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Youngtown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.