With a 7% population growth rate from 2000-2005, and the highest increase in new home permits in 2005 for all Ohio counties in the Cincinnati area, Clermont County is expected to be among Ohio’s three fasted growing counties from 2000 – 2010.  

Having added an average of 400 new businesses each of the past five years, a growing business sector is key to Clermont County’s population surge.  The county’s 4.8% unemployment rate (September 2007) is among the lowest in the state and only slightly above the national average of 4.5%. 

Aided by the convenience of I-275 and connecting highways and interstates, major companies like The Midland Company, Total Quality Logistics, International Paper and Siemens UGS/PLM have chosen to locate or expand in Clermont County. There are now 2,758 total businesses within the county.

Helping to drive this positive economic environment is Clermont County’s strategic location and proximity to the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.  Sixty percent of the U.S. population resides within one hour’s flight time of the area.  Factor in the pro-business environment a workforce that is well education and highly qualified, and an abundance of low cost land, and Clermont County continues to surge. 

More than 1.7 million people, 850,000 of them in the workforce, live within a 45-minute drive of Clermont County.   Clermont County shares in economic honors recently bestowed on Greater Cincinnati as a region as one of America’s Most Livable Communities.