Youngstown gets top spots in 2 national rankings

YOUNGSTOWN — A study by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research named the Youngstown-Warren area 10th among the 100 largest MSA’s in the U.S. for economic performance from 2009-2012 in its June 2014 report, “America’s Top Metros: Who’s Leading the Recovery and Why.”

The Manhattan Institute ranked metro areas by growth in economic output (GDP), personal income and jobs. Youngstown-Warren was sixth in per-capita GDP growth, 16th in per-capita personal income growth and 36th in private-sector employment growth. The region was the top-ranked Ohio large metro area, just ahead of Columbus and Toledo.

In addition, Smartasset.com ranked Youngstown the No. 1 city in the U.S. in its list of the “10 Best Cities for Healthcare Access for Your Money.”

Smartaccess.com ranked cities by adding the number of primary care physicians and hospital beds per 100,000 people (gathered from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care), and divided that by the median home sales price in thousands of dollars in that city. This gave them an average measure of healthcare access per $1,000 of home price.