Photo: Rob Cooley from Youngtown, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Youngtown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Jobs and income earn Youngtown B; getting around on foot earns it B−. 1,161 jobs are based in Youngtown, against 3,131 working residents. For 9% of workers, the job is at home, where Arizona as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Youngtown, in brief
How Youngtown earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Youngtown is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #35 of 140 in Arizona. Job access by car holds Youngtown’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($68,321, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Youngtown could be anywhere from C+ to A.
43% of working residents work in Phoenix
Where Youngtown clocks in
43% of workers
8% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Youngtown by day and by night
On a workday 3,062 residents head out to work, 69 work right here, and 1,092 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,100 people are in Youngtown on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Youngtown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Youngtown, 2013 → 2023: 1,302 → 1,161. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Youngtown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Youngtown’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Youngtown workers work from home, vs 18% across Arizona. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,952 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Arizona: 82% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How many miles Youngtown commutes
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Youngtown, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Youngtown is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns, #68 of 140 in Arizona. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.9% across Arizona.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,251 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 59% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 30% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 65% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.8% of Youngtown households have no vehicle (Arizona 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Youngtown’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,438th of 3,227: where Youngtown ranks among U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 360 | Litchfield Park AZ | 6,727 | $126K | 3.9% | 3.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 362 | Citrus Park AZ | 5,115 | $141K | 8.8% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 460 | Rincon Valley AZ | 6,512 | $132K | 4.1% | 1.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,436 | Fultondale AL | 9,307 | $74K | 12.5% | 3.3% | 3% | B |
| 1,437 | Kimberly ID | 5,798 | $98K | 19.3% | 0.0% | 8% | B |
| 1,438 | Youngtown AZ | 7,039 | $68K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 2% | B |
| 1,439 | Hiram GA | 5,585 | $85K | 12.0% | 3.8% | 5% | B |
| 1,440 | Seward NE | 7,892 | $73K | 9.6% | 1.7% | 32% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,227 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Youngtown, the top three, the last and three more from Arizona.
The towns around Youngtown
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Youngtown’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Youngtown: questions
What is the median household income in Youngtown?
$68,321 (±$18,126) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $79,964 across Arizona and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Youngtown?
10.4%, against 12.5% across Arizona and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Youngtown?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Arizona and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Youngtown work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Phoenix (43%, 12 mi), Glendale (8%, 8 mi), Peoria (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Youngtown walkable?
Youngtown is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Youngtown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 30% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Youngtown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Youngtown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.