Youngstown

Also known as Youngstown, Ohio, Youngstown, OH

county seat of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States

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Youngstown is a city in northeastern Ohio that serves as the main government center for Mahoning County. It is historically significant as a major steel manufacturing hub, though the industry's decline had major economic impacts on the region.

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Official name: Youngstown
Population: 64604
Area: 89.588425
Elevation: 259
Official website: youngstownohio.gov
Image: YoungstownOhio1910s.jpg
Households: 28303
Dialing code: 330

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Commons category: Youngstown, Ohio
Commons gallery: Youngstown, Ohio
postal code: 44555
inception: 1796-00-00
water as percent of area: 1.8361
per capita income: 18948
P12749: Karl Friedrich Adolf Konrad Bartsch
native label: Youngstown

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Youngstown is a city in Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, and the county seat (however, a small portion of the city is in Trumbull County). It lies along the Mahoning River in Northeast Ohio. The population was 60,068 at the 2020 census (estimated at 59,123 in 2024), making it the eleventh-most populous city in Ohio. The Mahoning Valley metropolitan area had an estimated 426,086 residents in 2024.

Youngstown was named after pioneer John Young, who founded the city in 1797 within the Connecticut Western Reserve and established the first sawmill and gristmill along the Mahoning River. It was an early industrial city of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and became known as a center of steel production. However, Youngstown did not economically diversify like larger industrial cities, and with the movement of steelmaking jobs offshore as the industry contracted in the 1970s, the city became exemplary of the Rust Belt.