Driving Around Downtown Cincinnati, OH in 4k Video

Filmed on Thursday, May 4 2023, I drive around downtown Cincinnati, Ohio to see what's going on.
If you want to control the camera and take a look around, check out my 360° video tour of Cincinnati: • Driving Around Downtow...
With an estimated population of 2,256,884, it is Ohio's largest metropolitan area and the nation's 30th-largest, and with a city population of 309,317, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 65th in the US.
Two years after the founding of the settlement then known as "Losantiville", Arthur St. Clair, the governor of the Northwest Territory, changed its name to "Cincinnati", possibly at the suggestion of the surveyor Israel Ludlow, in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati.
St. Clair was at the time president of the Society, made up of Continental Army officers of the Revolutionary War who named their club for Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a dictator in the early Roman Republic who saved Rome from a crisis, and then retired to farming because he did not want to remain in power.
Cincinnati's location, on the border between the free state of Ohio and the slave state of Kentucky, made it a prominent location for slaves to escape the slave-owning south. Many prominent abolitionists also called Cincinnati their home during this period, and made it a popular stop on the Underground Railroad. In 2004, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was completed along Freedom Way in Downtown, honoring the city's involvement in the Underground Railroad.
In 1859, Cincinnati laid out six streetcar lines; the cars were pulled by horses and the lines made it easier for people to get around the city. By 1872, Cincinnatians could travel on the streetcars within the city and transfer to rail cars for travel to the hill communities. In 1889, the Cincinnati streetcar system began converting its horse-drawn cars to electric streetcars.
Cincinnati weathered the Great Depression better than most American cities of its size, largely due to a resurgence in river trade, which was less expensive than transporting goods by rail. The flood of 1937 was one of the worst in the nation's history and destroyed many areas along the Ohio valley. Afterward the city built protective flood walls.
Metropolitan Cincinnati has the twenty-eighth largest economy in the United States and the fifth largest in the Midwest, after Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Detroit, and St. Louis. In 2016, it had the fastest-growing Midwestern economic capital.
The median home price is $158,200, and the cost of living in Cincinnati is 8% below national average. As of September 2022, the unemployment rate is 3.3%, below the national average.
Several Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Cincinnati, such as Procter & Gamble, The Kroger Company, and Fifth Third Bank. General Electric has headquartered their Global Operations Center in Cincinnati. The Kroger Company employs 21,646 people locally, making it the largest employer in the city, and the University of Cincinnati is the second largest at 16,000.
Cincinnati chili, a spiced sauce served over noodles, usually topped with cheese and often with diced onions and/or beans, is the area's "best-known regional food." It was first developed by Macedonian immigrant restaurateurs in the 1920s. Cincinnati has been called the "Chili Capital of America" and "of the World" because it has more chili restaurants per capita than any other city in the United States or in the world.
One of the United States's oldest and most celebrated bars, Arnold's Bar and Grill in downtown Cincinnati has won awards from Esquire magazine's "Best Bars in America", Thrillist's "Most Iconic Bar in Ohio", The Daily Meal's "150 Best bars in America", and Seriouseats.com's "The Cincinnati 10".
In 1950, Cincinnati reached its peak population of 503,998; thereafter, it lost population in every census count from 1960 to 2010. In the late 20th century, industrial restructuring caused a loss of jobs.
More recently, the population has begun recovering: the 2020 census reports a population of 309,317, representing a 4.2% increase from 296,945 in 2010. This marked the first increase in population recorded since the 1950 Census, reversing a 60-year trend of population decline.
At the 2020 census, there were 309,317 people, 138,696 households, and 62,319 families residing in the city.
The racial makeup of the city was 50.3% White, 41.4% African American, 0.1% Native American, 2.2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.2% from other races, and 4.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.2% of the population.
The per capita income was $34,060 and 24.7% of people lived below the poverty line. #driving #travel #drivingtour

[@danielrsson2171]

I am from Sweden and I was there in the summer of 2021 visiting some friends!🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@garrettcooper8183]

You’ll have to swing back by in a couple of years, there are some HUGE new developments & districts coming downtown within the next few.

[@exploreusacities]

Will do, heading southeast I pass right through

[@RudolphManor]

Yup, there's no place like Cincinnati. 💯

[@martyaz]

Now I see why food costs so much at our local Frys (Kroger). Got to pay the note on that building.

[@exploreusacities]

That's probably the best Kroger ever

[@aalexisi]

@@exploreusacities Cinci native here--I think that's their headquarters. Thanks for the tour--felt really nostalgic :)

[@brianmoore493]

Sorry if I cut you off in traffic

[@exploreusacities]

it's cool

[@terrybane6206]

Cincinnati looks better than expected but perhaps you were selective to avoid certain areas.Thanks for the ride.

[@exploreusacities]

I only drove around the downtown area with the skyscrapers...everywhere I drove, there was a distinct aroma in the air, people smoking a certain herb. It's quite a huge city, I probably filmed 5% of it