About Northern Kentucky

There are many ways to describe "Northern Kentucky." Geographically, Northern Kentucky is the three northernmost counties of Kentucky (Boone, Campbell and Kenton), or you could say Northern Kentucky is the southern side of Cincinnati. Economically, Northern Kentucky is described as the northern tip of the Golden Triangle of Kentucky, the area comprised of Northern Kentucky, Lexington and Louisville. The Golden Triangle is the heart of Kentucky's business and economic activity. The Golden Triangle has a population of 2.3 million; which is 54% of Kentucky's population, or 22% of the state's land area.

As an integral part of the Triangle, each of the three counties of Boone, Campbell and Kenton provide many recreational opportunities, from award-winning parks and green space to professional sports, cultural events and a wide variety of shopping – and, our good neighbor, Cincinnati is just 10 minutes away from many of our communities. Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati is among "America's 50 Hottest Cities," according to a report released by Expansion Management.

How do we describe Northern Kentucky? – it is a distinct region within the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Northern Kentucky is the equivalent of living in a “large” small town where the cost of living, land costs, buying a home, and proximity to rail, highway and air transportation keep getting better and better!

Since 1987, companies like Toyota Engineering and Manufacturing NA HQ, Fidelity Investments, WILD Flavors, and Ticona have found Northern Kentucky to be very profitable for business operations.

Northern Kentucky experienced substantially lower unemployment than the Cincinnati MSA, Kentucky or the United States from 1990 through 2005. A lower unemployment rate is indicative of a stable economy.

More than 48,000 new jobs were added in the period 1990–2009, with a total capital investment of $4.7 Billion.

While Northern Kentucky is a submarket of the Cincinnati MSA, we are less susceptible to downturns in the business cycles - our economy does not decline as much during those periods. This in turn allows Northern Kentucky to grow quickly in boom times.