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Cincinnati is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States that lies on the
Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton CountyGR6. The city's most common
nicknames and abbreviations include "The Queen City," "Cincy," "The 'Nati", and
"Cinti."
As of 2005, Cincinnati's population was 308,728, making it the third largest
city in Ohio and the 55th largest in the United States. It has a much larger
metropolitan area, commonly called "Greater Cincinnati", which covers parts of
Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. The Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington Combined
Statistical Area has a population of 2,050,175 people and is the 18th largest in
the country. It is home to major-league sports, including baseball's Reds,
America's first professional baseball team, the Bengals of the National Football
League, and the historic international men's and women's tennis tournament, The
A.T.P. Masters Series Cincinnati Masters. Cincinnati is home to major
corporations such as Procter & Gamble, The Kroger Company, GE Infrastructure,
Federated Department Stores (owner of Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Lord &
Taylor), Convergys, Chiquita Brands International, Great American Insurance
Company, The E. W. Scripps Company, the United States Playing Card Company, and
Fifth Third Bank.
It is considered to have been the first major American "boomtown", rapidly
expanding in the heart of the country in the early nineteenth century to rival
the coastal metropolises in size and wealth. However, by the end of the century,
its growth unexpectedly stopped and it was surpassed in population by many other
inland cities.
Cincinnati is also known for the architectural distinction of having the largest
collection of nineteenth-century Italianate architecture in the country,
primarily concentrated in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, just north of
downtown.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 206.1
km (79.6 mi). 201.9 km (78.0 mi) of it is land and 4.1 km (1.6 mi) of it
(2.01%) is water.
The Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington Combined Statistical Area has a population
of 2,050,175 people and is the 18th largest in the country. It includes the Ohio
counties of Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clermont, and Brown, as well as the
Kentucky counties of Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and
Pendleton, and the Indiana counties of Dearborn, Franklin, and Ohio.
Cincinnati's unique geography nestles its neighborhoods in small basins and the
hillsides that overlook them. Because of this, many of the city's neighborhoods
developed very strong identities. Today's outer neighborhoods such as Clifton,
Hyde Park, Mount Washington, Westwood, College Hill, and Carthage originally
were settled as their own villages, with individual downtown sections of their
own. Over-the-Rhine was an important neighborhood in German-American history.
Northside also has its own identity.
Also highly important to the city's landscape is the division into "East Side
and West Side." The division came about after the construction of Interstate
Route 75, which runs North from Kentucky towards Dayton. The rivalry has been
intense at times (limited violence or reported discrimination), but is
considered mostly light-hearted, although a good number of city residents take
the division more seriously. Accents, fashion, attitudes, city planning (i.e.,
the way the houses are laid out), financial demographics, and other items are
some of the stereotypes and behaviors that separate the two distinctions. One
description of such differences that many locals refer to is that East Siders
are "fake" and West Siders are not. Another description of differences is the
statement that the East side "has the money and spends it," and the West Side,
"has the money and doesn't spend it." Though this division is often pointed to
as a point of contention in the city, it has only led to limited incidents of
violence or litigious discrimination, and is considered more of a "charming
quirk" than a divisive hindrance to society.
Cincinnati has a number of nicknames, including the "The Queen City," "The Queen
of the West," "The Blue Chip City," "The City of Seven Hills," "The Nasty Nati,"
"The Nasty," "The Big Onion" and "Porkopolis." Cincinnati is sometimes
abbreviated to "Cincy," "Cinci," "Cinti" or "The 'Nati."
As of the census of 2003, there were 317,361 people, 166,012 households, and
72,566 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,640.5/km
(4,249.0/mi). There were 166,012 housing units at an average density of
822.1/km (2,129.2/mi). The racial makeup of the city was 52.97% White, 42.92%
Black or African American, 0.21% Native American, 1.55% Asian, 0.04% Pacific
Islander, 0.63% from other races, and 1.68% from two or more races. 1.28% of the
population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 148,095 households out of which 25.1% had children under the age of
18 living with them, 26.6% were married couples living together, 18.6% had a
female householder with no husband present, and 51.0% were non-families. 42.8%
of all households were made up of individuals and 11.1% had someone living alone
who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.15 and the
average family size was 3.02.
The age distribution is 24.5% under the age of 18, 12.9% from 18 to 24, 31.6%
from 25 to 44, 18.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males. For
every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $29,493, and the median income
for a family was $37,543. Males had a median income of $33,063 versus $26,946
for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,962. About 18.2% of
families and 21.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including
32.0% of those under age 18 and 14.8% of those age 65 or over.
There has been concerted effort by the local government to stem the tide of
emigrants. The population of Cincinnati decreased by nine percent between 1990
and 2000. Many of those leaving are living in the suburbs just outside of
Cincinnati (often considered "Greater Cincinnati"). Several reasons are
mentioned for this phenomenon common to many American cities, including job
opportunities, entertainment, racial tensions, education opportunities and
others.
Although the the Jewish population of Cincinnati at the turn of the century was
estimated only to be about 15,000 -- roughly 1% of the national Jewish
population of 1,522,500 at the time -- Cincinnati had been a hotbed for the
American Reform Judaism movement in the 19th Century. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a
major contributor to the movement, immigrated to Cincinnati in 1854. Under his
supervision the Hebrew Union College -- the oldest Jewish Seminary in the
Americas – opened here in 1875.