What is the Munimetric score for Youngstown, OH?

The current Munimetric Infrastructure Stress Index (MISI) score for Youngstown, OH is 20.3 out of 100, placing this system in the watch stress band. MISI is a composite of five structural risk families. Higher values indicate more stress. The score is deterministic, source-backed, and updated as new data becomes available.

Does Youngstown, OH show signs of drinking-water infrastructure stress?

Munimetric monitors structural stress indicators for Youngstown, OH across operational conditions, capital needs, revenue stability, rate affordability, and governance quality. The current MISI score and active signals shown in this profile reflect the latest available evidence from EPA, ACS, FEMA NRI, and state financial disclosures.

Does Munimetric rate current tap-water conditions for Youngstown, OH?

No. Munimetric is not a water testing service and does not make current-condition determinations. This profile tracks structural conditions: compliance posture, financial pressure, infrastructure stress, and governance quality. For current water quality testing results, consult the system's Consumer Confidence Report or contact the local water utility.

Has Youngstown, OH had a boil water advisory?

Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisory status, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. This profile tracks structural risk indicators and compliance history that provide long-term context around system reliability.

Are lead pipes or corrosion risk a concern in Youngstown, OH?

Where EPA SDWA compliance data includes lead and copper rule monitoring, violations, or enforcement actions, that information feeds into the Operational Stress component of the MISI score. Munimetric does not fabricate lead pipe data where public records are silent.

Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Youngstown, OH?

Where stored public records include UCMR or contaminant-monitoring summaries, Munimetric displays PFAS monitoring context as public-record evidence. Missing PFAS summaries are treated as missing records, not as non-detections. This context does not change MISI by itself.

What source-water context is available for Youngstown, OH?

Munimetric displays stored source-water and supply context where public drinking-water identity records are available. Source-water context helps explain treatment and supply exposure, but missing source records remain explicit rather than inferred.

Why might water rates be increasing in Youngstown, OH?

Rate pressure can reflect capital investment needs, a declining customer base, revenue fragility, affordability constraints, or parent-government fiscal stress. The Rate Constraint and Revenue Fragility score families specifically measure these pressures where data is available from public financial disclosures.

What does the MISI score mean for Youngstown, OH?

The MISI score (20.3/100) is a composite measure of structural risk across five families: Operational Stress, Capex Pressure, Revenue Fragility, Rate Constraint, and Governance Risk. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. The current methodology also downweights factors that are nearly universal or very rare in the frozen national reference population, so one common contextual factor does not dominate the headline by itself. Higher scores indicate more structural stress. It is deterministic and source-backed, not a credit rating.

Munimetric Water System Profile

Youngstown, OH

Name: Youngstown, OH Water System Stress Profile
Creator: Munimetric
License: https://munimetric.com/terms

Drinking Water Infrastructure Profile

Youngstown, OH, Ohio — Munimetric water system profile with MISI stress score, active compliance signals, infrastructure context, and fiscal pressure indicators. This profile highlights what is happening and why it matters using water-system, fiscal, capital, and signal context.

Youngstown, OH has a MISI infrastructure stress score of 20.3/100 in the Watch band as of 2026-05-17. Public records show surface-water sourcing, PFAS monitoring context, lead and copper compliance context and approximately 61,000 residents served. Updated May 2026.

WatchScore date May 17, 2026Methodology v0.1.2

State context

Current market shown in covered state context. Tile size reflects population served; color reflects stress band.

20.3Headline composite

WatchBand

67%Confidence

~61KPop. served

P21Peer percentile

13Active signals

Current headline composite

Component of current headline composite

Infrastructure Stress9.1 / 100

Physical, compliance, and capital-execution pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Socioeconomic Stress11.2 / 100

Affordability, demand-base, and parent-government fiscal pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Observability Stress0.0 / 100

Staleness, disclosure freshness, and reporting-visibility effects reflected in the blended headline composite.

20.3/100 headline compositeWatch67% confidencedrinking_water::community_water_system::25k_to_100k::surface_water~61K people served

Monitoring context limited

Water Quality & Supply Context

Public-record context for this system. Stored monitoring and compliance records only. Does not change MISI.

Public records

Records presentOHPWSID OH5019001.

Recent violations

0 recordsNo recent categories listed.

Enforcement records

0 recordsNo stored enforcement rows.

PFAS monitoring records

Not storedNo PFAS monitoring summary is stored for this system; missing summaries remain unknown.

Lead/copper monitoring records

Not storedNo lead/copper monitoring summary is stored for this system; missing summaries remain unknown.

Source / supply context

Surface waterIdentity61,000 served.

Not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Use official utility or state program records for current advisories.

Official records

Public drinking-water profileEPA ECHO / SDWIS: Federal public system profile and compliance summary.
Enforcement historyEPA ECHO: Federal compliance and enforcement detail for this drinking-water system.
State drinking-water programOhio Environmental Protection Agency: State drinking and groundwater program home page.

Source notes

Methodology/source notesDisplayed from stored public drinking-water records and official program references. This layer does not change MISI.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: PFAS context uses stored contaminant-monitoring summaries where available; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
Methodology/source notesOfficial annual consumer-confidence report links are not currently stored in this profile layer.

Tier 1 profile guide

How to interpret Youngstown, OH

Plain-language summary

Youngstown, OH is part of the selected Tier 1 profile set. This page is designed to quickly explain what the MISI headline composite means here. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.

Why this page stands out

Current MISI is 20.3 in the watch band as of May 17, 2026.
67% confidence and 13 tracked structural signals support interpretation quality.
Related market links are prioritized for same-state and same-risk-context comparisons.

What to do next

Read the executive interpretation first to understand why the market is in its current band.
Compare this profile with related systems to validate whether stress patterns are local or systemic.
Open Ohio state context to see how this market fits the statewide posture.

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Executive context

What the Data Suggests

Youngstown, OH's drinking-water system serves about 61,000 residents, making it a mid-size system within the coverage universe. At the latest reading, Munimetric flags the system as showing early but meaningful signs of structural stress.

The score is being driven mainly by Governance Risk, with Operational Stress contributing at a lower level. The pressure is distributed rather than concentrated in a single dimension.

4 active stress signals are attached to this system, including one at high severity. The breadth of active signals, even without concentrated high severity, suggests pressure across more than one dimension.

Within Community · 25k–100k · Surface, this system ranks around the 21st percentile on measured stress, placing it below typical peer-group stress levels.

Recent score history has been relatively steady, consistent with the system's overall profile.

This summary is based on structured, source-backed public data and is intended for research and monitoring only. It is not investment advice, a credit opinion, or municipal advisory guidance.

Analytical posture

Market Stress Analytics

Family Contribution

MISI family contributions for this market.

Peer Position

Where Youngstown sits within its peer cohort.

AvailableMissing

Score History

Latest

20.3

Trend

+20.3

Observations

Structural Indicators

Operational Stress5.4 / 20.0

Operational Stress totals 5.398 points, led by climate hazard exposure.

Capex Pressure3.7 / 20.0

Capex Pressure totals 3.746 points, led by infrastructure capital gap.

Revenue Fragility2.0 / 20.0

Revenue Fragility totals 1.997 points, led by high-agi out-migration.

Rate Constraint0.0 / 20.0

Rate Constraint totals 0.000 points with no triggered factors.

Governance Risk9.2 / 20.0

Governance Risk totals 9.157 points, led by parent-government fiscal stress.

Stress movement

Diagnostics

Diagnostics & Movement

Compact status for confidence, data coverage, disclosure freshness, and stored score movement. Detailed diagnostic history remains available below.

Confidence

67%

Confidence is mainly capped by missing factor coverage.

Factor coverage

Complete

All tracked confidence factors are currently available.

Disclosure freshness

Not available

No attached disclosure document has a usable reference date. Public profile sections are summarized because score confidence is currently low.

Latest movement

flat 0.0

Compared with May 10, 2026.

Last material movement

-28.6

Recorded May 1, 2026.

History

48 observations stored

Latest stored observation May 17, 2026.

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Expanded stress diagnostics

Open detailed contribution diagnostics

No detailed factor diagnostics are stored for this profile snapshot.

Confidence summary

Confidence is mainly capped by missing factor coverage.

Missing factor coverage

No factor gaps are recorded on the latest stored score.

Disclosure freshness diagnostics

0 attached local documents · 0 structured facts

No attached disclosure document has a usable reference date. Public profile sections are summarized because score confidence is currently low.

Latest reference Not available · stale after Not available

Score movement

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Previous run May 10, 2026

May 17, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 10, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 9, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 8, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 7, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 6, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 5, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 4, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 3, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 2, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

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May 1, 2026

Score 20.3 in band watch. Confidence 67%.

Delta vs prior run -28.6

Apr 30, 2026

Score 48.9 in band fragile. Confidence 98%.

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Apr 29, 2026

Score 48.9 in band fragile. Confidence 98%.

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Apr 28, 2026

Score 48.9 in band fragile. Confidence 98%.

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Apr 27, 2026

Score 48.9 in band fragile. Confidence 98%.

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