Metro area · Ohio

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN is a metropolitan area of 15 counties in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, home to 2,312,858 residents. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area has a quality-of-life score of 69 out of 100 (high), ranking #291 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Ohio it ranks #6 of 41. It ranks best on drought exposure (low), average weekly wage (high) and flu vaccinations (high). It ranks worst on comfortable days (low), median Air Quality Index (high) and days with unhealthy air (high).

69High
Quality-of-life score
#291 of 925 metro and micro areas
Ohio
#6 of 41 in OH
Population
2,312,858 (2025)
Land area
4,385 mi²
Density
527.4 /mi²
CBSA code
17140

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety50#463/924
  • Economy77#213/925
  • Housing57#398/925
  • Health58#391/925
  • Healthcare83#162/923
  • Environment0#914/917
  • Education83#158/925
  • Infrastructure81#176/925
  • Community67#307/925
  • Leisure & amenities62#351/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Hamilton CountyCentral county57838,418
  2. Butler CountyCentral county55400,128
  3. Warren CountyCentral county88257,181
  4. Clermont CountyCentral county74216,977
  5. Kenton CountyCentral county81175,779
  6. Boone CountyCentral county89145,316
  7. Campbell CountyCentral county7795,441
  8. Dearborn CountyOutlying county7451,609
  9. Brown CountyOutlying county2444,397
  10. Grant CountyOutlying county4526,181
  11. Franklin CountyOutlying county5223,286
  12. Pendleton CountyOutlying county2614,800
  13. Gallatin CountyOutlying county228,840
  14. Bracken CountyOutlying county318,511
  15. Ohio CountyOutlying county465,994

States

The share of the area's residents living in each state.

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. CincinnatiPrincipal city311,224

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Cincinnati311,224
  2. Hamilton63,468
  3. Middletown51,617
  4. Fairfield44,828
  5. Covington41,110
  6. Mason35,509
  7. Florence32,803
  8. Independence29,392
  9. Oxford21,753
  10. Lebanon21,501
  11. Forest Park20,025
  12. Springboro19,980
  13. Erlanger19,875
  14. White Oak19,216
  15. Norwood19,114
  16. Burlington18,008
  17. Fort Thomas17,169
  18. Monroe15,401
  19. Sharonville14,030
  20. Newport13,967
  21. Trenton13,583
  22. Bridgetown13,464
  23. Blue Ash13,455
  24. Loveland13,197

Other metro and micro areas in Ohio

Areas based in Ohio, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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