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Facts
 Welcome to Cincinnati USA, a progressive three-state, 15-county region linking Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana — and brimming with a million surprises: 10 Fortune 500 companies, more than 300 foreign-owned firms, one of the country's best international airports, major-league arts, sports and hospitality, and a revitalized urban core boasting the largest investment in riverfront development in the nation.
ITS SIZE
The metropolitan area consists of Hamilton, Clermont and Warren Counties in Ohio; Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties in Kentucky; and Dearborn County, Indiana. The metropolitan Cincinnati population is 1,900,000.
ITS ECONOMY
Diverse and strong. Greater Cincinnati is the headquarters city for various national and international companies such as: American Financial Corporation, Cinergy Corporation, The Kroger Company, Chiquita Brands International, Cincinnati Milacron, Procter & Gamble Company, Western-Southern Insurance, Cincinnati Financial, General Cable Corp., Federated, and more!
Living in Cincinnati is affordable. The cost of living is 90.4 and the cost of housing is 80.4.
Cincinnati Technology
Cincinnati USA connects the energy and amenities of a vibrant, urban metro region with the warmth and values of quaint and historic neighborhoods. Cincinnati Children's Hospital is among the top three children's hospitals in the country.
With more than 2,000 area firms engaged in high technology and a proliferation of research and development centers, such as the University of Cincinnati's Genome Research Institute, it's not surprising that Cincinnati attracts top technology professionals. In addition, new businesses are flourishing at the Hamilton County Business Center incubator, a hotbed for high-tech start-ups, and BIO/START, a biotechnology incubator on the University of Cincinnati Medical Center campus.
Cincinnati Technology businesses encompass:
- Advanced materials
- Aerospace
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Computer software
- Manufacturing technology
- Pharmacology
- Telecommunications/E-commerce
Here is what others are saying about technology in Cincinnati:
- According to Corporate Technology Information Services, Inc., growth in high-tech sectors makes Cincinnati the nation's fourth-best city for employment in emerging firms (biotechnology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and advanced materials).
- Entrepreneur magazine ranked Cincinnati 16th in the U.S. for entrepreneurship and first for "best bets for lowest failure rates."
- Yahoo! Internet Life ranked Cincinnati the "most wired city in Ohio" and #25 in the nation.
Advanced telecommunications:
- Cincinnati, on a per-capita basis, is the highest bandwidth city in the country.
- For two years in a row, Cincinnati Bell Telephone ranked as the best provider of residential customer satisfaction and best national provider of residential long distance customer satisfaction among mainstream users (J.D. Powers & Assoc., 2001 and 2002).
- Cincinnati Bell Telephone, a pioneer in LAN and WAN capabilities, provides full engineering, technical and service resources for one of the largest local calling areas in the U.S.
- Cincinnati Bell Telephone won "best built public network" in 1999 for its Zoomtown ADSL network.
- Broadwing's high-tech testing lab is a national leader in broadband technology.
Federal research facilities in Cincinnati:
- Cincinnati Veteran's Administration Medical Center
- National Forensic Chemistry Center
- National Homeland Security Research Center
- National Institute of Safety and Health
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - Aeronautical Systems Center (Dayton)
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