• Kentucky has the lowest average electric rates in the nation. In fact, retail rates to industrial customers were 43 percent lower than the national average in 2005. (Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration)
   
• Kentucky is located in the center of eastern U.S. industrial and consumer markets, with its borders within 600 miles of over 60% of the nation’s population, personal income, and manufacturing business establishments. (Source: Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet)
   
• The population center of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains is located just northeast of Danville, Kentucky. (Source: Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet)
   
• To date, all of the Fortune 25 largest U.S. corporations have manufacturing or service facilities in Kentucky. (Source: Kentucky Economic Development Cabinet)
   
• Kentucky is ranked as the fourth lowest for overall business costs in the nation, with a state index 16.2% less than the national average, and has the lowest overall cost of doing business in the eastern United States. (Source: American Business Cost Review,10th Edition, December 2003).
   
• The median value of owner-occupied housing in Kentucky ranked 13th lowest nationally at $98,132, while the national median in 2002 was $136,929 (Source: Morgan Quitno State Rankings 2004).
   

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