Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Economy

🇺🇸 Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, and is situated on the Indiana border.

Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states.

Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville's main commercial airport, hosts UPS's world-wide hub.

Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the merger and renaming, the term "Jefferson County" continues to be used in some contexts in reference to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outside the "balance" which make up Louisville proper.

The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana.

Economy Louisville today is home to dozens of companies and organizations across several industrial classifications. However, the underpinning of the city's economy since its earliest days has been the shipping and cargo industries. Its strategic location at the Falls of the Ohio, as well as its unique position in the central United States (within one day's road travel to 60 percent of the cities in the continental U.S.) make it a practical location for the transfer of cargo along its route to other destinations. The Louisville and Portland Canal and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad were important links in water and rail transportation.

Louisville's importance to the shipping industry continues today with the presence of the Worldport global airfreight hub for UPS at Louisville International Airport. Louisville's location at the crossroads of three major interstate highways (I‑64, I‑65, and I‑71) also contributes to its modern-day strategic importance to the shipping and cargo industry. In addition, the Port of Louisville continues Louisville's river shipping presence at Jefferson Riverport International. As of 2003, Louisville ranks as the seventh-largest inland port in the United States.

Louisville is a significant centre of manufacturing, with two major Ford Motor Company plants, and the headquarters and major home appliance factory of GE Appliances (a subsidiary of Haier). The city is also a major centre of the American whiskey industry, with about one-third of all bourbon whiskey coming from Louisville. Brown-Forman, one of the major makers of American whiskey, is headquartered in Louisville and operates a distillery in the Louisville suburb of Shively. The current primary distillery site operated by Heaven Hill, called the Bernheim distillery, is also located in Louisville near Brown-Forman's distillery. Other distilleries and related businesses can also be found in neighbouring cities in Kentucky, such as Bardstown, Clermont, Lawrenceburg, and Loretto. Similar to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that links these central Kentucky locations, Louisville offers tourists its own "Urban Bourbon Trail", where people can stop at nearly 20 "area bars and restaurants, all offering at least 50 labels of America's only native spirit".

Not typically known for high tech outside of the previously identified industries, Code Louisville, the city's public–private partnership for teaching people entry level software development skills, received recognition in 2015 from then-President Barack Obama.

Louisville prides itself in its large assortment of small, independent businesses and restaurants, some of which have become known for their ingenuity and creativity. Several major motion pictures have also been filmed in or near Louisville, including The Insider, Goldfinger, Stripes, Lawn Dogs, Elizabethtown, and Secretariat.

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Louisville is rated Sufficiency by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Sufficiency level cities are cities that have a sufficient degree of services so as not to be overly dependent on world cities.

Louisville is ranked #79 by the Global Urban Competitiveness Report (GUCR) which evaluates and ranks world cities in the context of economic competitiveness. Louisville was ranked #220 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Louisville has a population of over 782,969 people. Louisville also forms part of the wider Louisville-Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Bardstown metropolitan area which has a population of over 1,522,112 people. Louisville is the #149 hipster city in the world, with a hipster score of 3.9203 according to the Hipster Index which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. Louisville is ranked #160 for startups with a score of 3.415.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Louisville has links with:

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Antipodal to Louisville is: 94.239,-38.254

Locations Near: Louisville -85.7609,38.2543

🇺🇸 Shepherdsville -85.7,37.967 d: 32.4  

🇺🇸 Bardstown -85.45,37.817 d: 55.8  

🇺🇸 Elizabethtown -85.96,37.7 d: 64.1  

🇺🇸 Frankfort -84.879,38.195 d: 77.3  

🇺🇸 Bloomington -86.517,39.15 d: 119.3  

🇺🇸 Danville -84.767,37.633 d: 111.2  

🇺🇸 Jasper -86.935,38.392 d: 103.5  

🇺🇸 Lawrenceburg -84.85,39.083 d: 121.5  

🇺🇸 Lexington -84.5,38.049 d: 112.6  

🇺🇸 Franklin -86.067,39.494 d: 140.4  

Antipodal to: Louisville 94.239,-38.254

🇦🇺 Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 18014  

🇦🇺 Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 17972  

🇦🇺 Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 17960.2  

🇦🇺 City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 17945.6  

🇦🇺 Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 17934.5  

🇦🇺 Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 17933.4  

🇦🇺 Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 17928  

🇦🇺 Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 17921  

🇦🇺 Midland 116.01,-31.888 d: 17917.3  

🇦🇺 Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 17882.3  

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