What is Youngstown-Warren's Life Score?

Youngstown-Warren scores 57.1/100 (grade B+), rank #84 of 387. Signature cost at the 90th percentile; stamps UPPER · BALANCED · cost FLOOR · wages LOW.

What pulls Youngstown-Warren up or down?

Strongest: rent (94/100). Weakest: environment (6/100). Profile mark BALANCED; dimension gap 88.

How current is this data?

Federal releases current as of August 2026 (BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA). Cadence varies by series; see methodology.

Metro Life Score

Youngstown-Warren, OH

Top-quartile composite Life Score — grade B+, 78th percentile of the national corpus.

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57.1
Life Score / 100: B+
Grade (curved): #84
of 387 metros: 78%
composite percentile

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Data updated August 2026

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The verdict

Youngstown-Warren is top-quartile composite Life Score — #84 of 387 (57.1/100, grade B+, 78th percentile). Carried by rent at 94/100; held back most by environment at 6/100.

78th
composite percentile: #84
of 387 peers: 90th
cost dimension percentile: 14th
wages dimension percentile

Life Score shape · UPPER · BALANCED · signature cost

Youngstown-Warren: affordability leads the Life Score story

Youngstown-Warren is a UPPER-band metro whose cost dimension sits at the 90th percentile of 387 US metros (FLOOR) while composite is #84 (57.1/100, grade B+). Rent at 94/100 carries the upside; Environment at 6/100 is the residual drag. According to PlainCompare's federal Life Score corpus ranking, Youngstown-Warren, OH ranks #84 of 387 metros by composite Life Score (highest = #1) and #40 of 387 by cost-of-living dimension score (highest = #1). Methodology.

BEA RPP 87.4 (rent-RPP 53.4). BLS median salary $58,019, 152,720 jobs (Fast Food and Counter Workers, Retail Salespersons, General and Operations Managers). HUD 2BR FMR $973/mo (studio $735).

FBI UCR (OH): 293 violent, 1545 property/100K. NCES: 17.4:1 ratio, 9.3% charter. DOL infant childcare $11,791/yr. EPA: 50 Superfund sites (OH).

Where Youngstown-Warren sits among all US metros

Composite Life Score vs the national field

57 Top 22% higher than 78% of 387 US metros

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Source PlainCompare composite of BEA, BLS, HUD, FBI, NCES, DOL, EPA data · August 2026

How the 57.1 is built

Youngstown-Warren's Life Score, decomposed

Cost of Living 18.0 (31%) Wages 2.8 (5%) Rent 14.1 (25%) Safety 9.4 (16%) Schools 9.1 (16%) Childcare 3.0 (5%) Environment 0.6 (1%)

Dimension detail

How Youngstown-Warren scores, dimension by dimension

Score Breakdown

Dimension Scores

Cost of Living 90/100 (20%) Above average

Wages 14/100 (20%) Below average

Rent 94/100 (15%) Top 10%

Safety 63/100 (15%) Average

Schools 91/100 (10%) Top 10%

Childcare 30/100 (10%) Average

Environment 6/100 (10%) Bottom 10%

Key Data Points

87.4

Cost Index (RPP)

$58,019

Avg Median Salary

$973

2BR Fair Market Rent

293

Violent Crime/100K (OH)

17.4:1

Student-Teacher Ratio

$11,791

Infant Childcare/yr (OH)

Superfund Sites (OH)

152,720

Total Employment

Geography used: crime, schools, childcare, and environment cards above are OH state-level when metro-specific feeds are unavailable, see the scope key at the top of this page.

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Ranking Context

Youngstown-Warren outranks 78% of U.S. metros.

Rank	Metro	Score	Grade
#81	College Station-Bryan, TX	57.4	B+
#82	Coeur d'Alene, ID	57.5	B+
#83	Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA	57.6	B+
#84	Youngstown-Warren, OH	57.1	B+
#85	Waco, TX	57.1	B+
#86	Oklahoma City, OK	57.0	B+
#87	Lynchburg, VA	56.9	B+

Quality vs. Affordability

Youngstown-Warren, OH's quality rank (top 22% highest-quality) and affordability rank (top 10% most affordable) sit close together -- an unusually proportionate metro where overall quality and cost-of-living move together.

Youngstown-Warren, OH (highlighted) among its 12 nearest composite-Life-Score peers, out of 387 tracked metros nationally. Crosshairs mark this peer neighborhood's own median composite score and cost-of-living score. Cost-of-living score is already inverted so higher = more affordable.

OH Metro Scores

Toledo, OH A 61.8 Cleveland, OH A- 58.8 Mansfield, OH B+ 56.7 Lima, OH B+ 55.6 Canton-Massillon, OH B+ 55.5 Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH B+ 55.5

Read with Youngstown-Warren

Nearest composite peers and cost poles for Youngstown-Warren (UPPER · BALANCED · FLOOR/LOW), replacing the fixed Explore/Guides strip.

Waco, TX

ABS(composite) peer at 57.1 (Δ 0.0 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · FLOOR/LOW.

Oklahoma City, OK

ABS(composite) peer at 57.0 (Δ 0.1 vs this metro); lower Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · FLOOR/LOW.

Lynchburg, VA

ABS(composite) peer at 56.9 (Δ 0.2 vs this metro); lower Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · FLOOR/LOW.

College Station-Bryan, TX

ABS(composite) peer at 57.4 (Δ 0.3 vs this metro); higher Life Score · grade B+ vs this page's UPPER · BALANCED · FLOOR/LOW.

St. Cloud, MN (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 90/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp FLOOR vs this metro's FLOOR.

Dubuque, IA (cost pole)

ABS(cost_score) orthogonal peer at 90/100 (Δ 0); cost stamp FLOOR vs this metro's FLOOR.

Youngstown-Warren, OH relocation guide

Stamp-branched guide for UPPER · BALANCED · FLOOR/LOW - how to read federal Life Score inputs before a move.

Using Youngstown-Warren's top-third Life Score

Youngstown-Warren scores 57.1/100 overall, but Rent (94.0) and Environment (6.5) sit 87.6 points apart, so decide which of the two matters more to you before leaning on the total.

Rent is the strongest of Youngstown-Warren's seven dimensions (weighted 15% in the composite); if it is your priority, this is where the metro earns its rank. See all seven dimensions
Environment is the weakest (weighted 10% in the composite); if it is a dealbreaker, weigh it before the ranking does. Rank metros on the composite
Toledo is the nearest comparison this page can offer; put the two side by side on the same seven dimensions. Compare with Toledo

A high composite is a weighted blend; it does not mean every dimension is strong.

Data from BEA, HUD, FBI UCR, BLS OES, NCES, DOL, and EPA. Not affiliated with the U.S. Government.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Youngstown-Warren Life Score 57.1/100 · signature cost · retrieved and formatted by PlainCompare

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

All federal data sources used on this page

U.S. Census Bureau ACS - multi-dimension demographic + housing + income aggregates for cross-area comparison. census.gov/programs-surveys/acs
BEA Regional Economic Accounts - GDP, personal income, employment by state and metro. bea.gov/data/regional
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) - wage estimates for comparable-area indexing. bls.gov/oes
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) - crime statistics for safety-score component. fbi.gov/ucr
NCES Common Core of Data - public-school quality indicators by area. nces.ed.gov/ccd
EPA AirNow + Air Quality System (AQS) - air-quality measurements by area. epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data
HUD Fair Market Rents (FMR) - county and metro housing-cost indicators. huduser.gov/datasets/fmr