Mineral Ridge is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Trumbull and northern Mahoning counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 3,951 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb in the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area. Mineral Ridge was named for valuable coal deposits near the original town site.
History
The area of Mineral Ridge was primarily a farming community, with some coal mining in the 1830s. In the mid-1850s, John Lewis, superintendent of the Mineral Ridge Coal Mines, discovered black band iron ore beneath the layers of coal ore, leading to a boom of companies working with the blast furnaces of Brier Hill, Niles, and later, Mineral Ridge itself. The main deposit of iron for Youngstown’s growing steel industry, this iron was known as “American Scotch Pig” and “Warner’s Scotch Pig.”
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2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Mineral Ridge had a population of 3,951. The median age was 45.9 years. 20.0% of residents were under the age of 18 and 24.0% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 93.5 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 93.0 males age 18 and over.
94.6% of residents lived in urban areas, while 5.4% lived in rural areas.
There were 1,562 households in Mineral Ridge, of which 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 49.6% were married-couple households, 18.1% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 25.5% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 29.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 13.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.