Prices, inventory, and demand — distilled every month into one clear verdict: buyer’s market or seller’s. The investor’s read, before you make an offer.
The median asking price in Youngstown is about $203,000 as of Sep 2026, up 10.5% from a year ago. Asking price per square foot is down 1.3%, so read the median with care: it moves with which homes happen to be listed. That is the asking price on listed homes, so sold-price and home-value sites show different numbers (why).
Only if you move fast. Sellers have more pull in Youngstown than usual. Compared with 2017–2019 at this time of year, there are 27% fewer homes for sale, and the typical listing has been up 17% fewer days. Good homes go under contract quickly. If you want one, be ready to move in days.
The population in Youngstown's ZIP codes fell 1.4% over five years. 9.1% of homes are vacant, higher than 69% of tracked cities. Households fell 1.0% while the housing stock changed -4.3%. Fewer households means a thinner tenant pool. Budget extra vacancy and buy where renters already concentrate.
HUD sets one fair market rent for Mahoning County. For fiscal year 2026:
The figures include tenant-paid utilities and apply to all of Mahoning County, so one home's rent can sit well above or below them. See fair market rent by city.
In Youngstown, 34 out of every 100 households rent. Most own their home. The renter share is shrinking. Five years ago it was 37 in 100. Youngstown lost about 1,800 renter households in five years. Renter households average 2.0 people. Singles and couples rent here. Two bedrooms beat four.
The median Youngstown household earns $53,762 a year. Incomes here have grown 4.0% a year since 2019. Home prices have outrun incomes. Locals are being priced out. A typical home costs 3.8 times the median income. Locals can afford to buy here. Your exit buyer can be a local family. At 30% of income, a tenant on the median income can pay about $1,344 a month.
To see what one Youngstown address would rent for and cash flow, run it through the app.
Asking prices are at their highest point on record. You are buying at the top. Underwrite it that way. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller. Youngstown prices have risen in 99 of the last 111 months. Drops here have been short and shallow. Buying in a slow month has rarely hurt a long hold.
If you plan to sell in the next two years, move it up. This much buyer demand does not last. Right now it does your negotiating for you.
Across 9 full years, Youngstown asking prices ran lowest in February, about 10.1% below the year's average. They peaked in August. The most homes for sale show up in October, about 16% above the yearly average. Shop in October for choice, and expect the softest asking prices in February.
Read when a cheap market is a warning and how we read these numbers, then run the numbers on a deal.
The median asking price in Youngstown is about $203,000 as of Sep 2026, up 10.5% from a year ago. Asking price per square foot is down 1.3%, so read the median with care: it moves with which homes happen to be listed. This is the asking price on homes listed for sale. Sites that report sold prices or estimated home values will show a different number. Our Youngstown figures cover the 15 ZIP codes with a Youngstown mailing address, which can reach past city limits.
Sellers have more pull in Youngstown than usual. We compare Youngstown with 2017–2019 at this time of year: there are 27% fewer homes for sale; the typical listing has been up 17% fewer days; there are 55 pending sales per 100 listings, against 47 then.
Asking prices are at their highest point on record. You are buying at the top. Underwrite it that way. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller.
Assume +7.6% a year. Youngstown has grown about 9.0% a year for five years and for ten. That pace held before and after the 2020–2021 boom, so it is a fair long-run input. Prices fell 1.3% over the last year. Use it for timing. The five-year rate is the better guide.
HUD's fiscal year 2026 fair market rent for Mahoning County is $973 a month for 2 bedrooms and $1,270 for 3 bedrooms. The figures include tenant-paid utilities and cover the whole county.
ZIP 44505 is on both lists. That is rare. It is the one place in Youngstown where leverage and growth overlap.
| ZIP | $/sqft, 2 yrs | $/sqft now | Buyers per home | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44514 | +18.4% | $158 | 0.38 | 98 |
| 44505 | +13.4% | $105 | 0.65 | 25 |
| 44509 | +13.0% | $81 | 0.47 | 30 |
| 44507 | +9.6% | $56 | 0.26 | 19 |
| 44515 | +9.4% | $143 | 0.56 | 59 |
Computed from each ZIP's own ten-year history. ZIPs with fewer than 10 homes for sale are excluded: a median across a handful of listings is noise, not a signal.
Youngstown has 15 ZIP codes. Each links to its live market dashboard.
Closest matches on asking price, price per square foot, time on market, buyer demand, and price cuts.
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