The 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.
 
 
 
Just maybe they will buy me out?  Cheap too...



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