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Census: Youngstown’s population drops by 18.3 percent
TweetThe news from the U.S. Census couldn’t be much worse for Youngstown.
Youngstown’s population declined by 18.3 percent between 2000 and 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today.
Just as Youngstown had in the 2000 census compared to the one from 10 years earlier, it had the largest decline of any of the state’s largest 25 cities between 2000 and 2010.
City officials had said before the numbers were released today that it was almost impossible for Youngstown in the latest census to lose more than the 14.9 percent decline in population it experienced between 1990 and 2000.
But it did.
“It definitely seems extreme,” said Bill D’Avignon, the city’s community development agency director. “It’s more extreme than we had anticipated.”
The decline leaves the city’s population at 66,982. It was only in 1990 that the city’s population was 95,732. Its population in 2000 was 82,026.
The population in Mahoning County dropped by 7.3 percent from 257,555 in 2000 to 238,823 in 2010. Trumbull County’s population declined by 6.6 percent from 225,116 in 2000 to 210,312 in 2010.
Besides Cuyahoga County, which lost 8.8 percent of its population, Mahoning and Trumbull saw the second and third highest decline in percentage of population lost among the state’s 20 most populated counties.
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Sounds like we need to expand local government, raise taxes to pay the people we have now, and hire new city workers to deal with the declining population. Of course this will certainly raise the property values and taxes on this next reevaluation. This is no surprise most people didnt make the mistake I made of moving within the city limits.
Y-town city needs to reduce size of council and reduce income tax rate.
Pretty soon Youngstown will be smaller than Boardman.
Detroit lost 50% in population.
The 2.75% local income tax has everyone with an income fleeing to the suburbs. The $95-100/month average water/sewer/ sanitation bill is fleecing the Youngstown "customers." The aging and depreciating housing stock is driving the ghetto to the suburbs.
I'm very glad that I moved to the suburbs. Youngstown is for people that can't afford to live anywhere else. The city knows this. That is why the water bills, license plate surcharge, and everything is heavily inflated. A city of takers, with the city administration the biggest takers of them all!
@carlstaatz --
I have 3 properties in Youngstown I live in 1 and the other two are duplexes for a total of 4 rental units; I pay water sewer garbage for all three properties and I have never had a one month bill over $65. All it takes is proper plumbing maintenance to keep the bills very affordable. When I was living in California an average bill for WSG for just one of my properties would have cost over $400 per month.
Stick a fork in this town, it's done. Let's face it, anyone who had the chance to leave and is still living here, myself included, is an idiot.
We can have all the "2010" plans and Chamber of Commerce feel good sessions we want, but when 65% of your population leaves (from 165,000 to 67,000) in two generations, it's a Biblical Exodus.
The bill in Youngstown with a vacant unit or a broken meter (zero consumption) is $40/month. Where I'm at now, water and sewer together average $45/month, with consumption. There is no local income tax here, either. License plate surcharge: $5.00.
Twelve good reasons to move from Youngstown:
1. High crime
2. High levels of blight
3. Destroyed, poorly-maintained roads
4. High license-plate surcharges
5. Extremely high local income tax rate
6. Very high water/sewer/sanitation bills
7. Incompetent school system
8. Few supermarkets, having to drive far or take the bus to buy anything other than alcohol or tobacco
9. Arrogant city administration that only cares about V&M Star, Exal, and other large employers who pay large amounts of the high local income tax. The average person does not matter to them, you are only someone for them to tax.
10. Vagrants and thugs everwhere posing security issues. Having to spend more on lighting, locks, and burglar alarms.
11. High insurance costs
12. Harder time finding employment, because when an employer sees on your application that you live in Youngstown, they assume that you are an idiot or a lowlife.
I installed high efficiency toilets water restrictors on the showers front load washer and I cant break $100 a month for water. thats for 4 people. I also forgot about the high insurance costs here home and auto. I am unlucky enough to share the 44511 zip with the south side. 5 houses away in austintown would save me 20%. I agree with the city admin. I have a sidewalk with the rebar showing and the councilman say sorry no money. The same time the spend millions on V&M and we pay one of the highest tax rates in the state for this luxury living. The wife finally mentioned last week it may be time to move and I agree with her as soon we are able the bank can have the house.
Why not turn the vast wastelands in the city into farms? I'd rather see herds of cattle and pigs along Market Street than hordes of gangs and human swine.
Im glad I had the sense to leave Mahoning County 8 yrs ago. Stay there and you die mentally and physically.
Why is anyone still here? My gosh, I can't wait to move to Virginia.
Last one out turn out the lights
It wil be a ghost town at this rate in 20 years as in no one left.
No jobs = no people.
They can raise taxes all they want it will only push folks out.There isn't enough tax dollars to make it float.
Just make a forest out of it that is what it was before the settlers came and that is where it should return.One big carbon sink.
What else will it be good for? It is too close to civilization to use for airforce target practice.
The ghetto is sliding south into Boardman...