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Strategically located at the Crossroads of America, the Dayton Region is the ideal place to start, relocate, or grow a business. From affordable space, to competitive tax incentives, to a skilled and ready workforce, the Dayton Region is uniquely poised to support business interests across diverse industries.

JobsOhio Western Region, an initiative of the Dayton Development Coalition, provides targeted assistance to businesses of all sizes that want to benefit from the region’s many assets. We help you tap into the incentives and advantages that make Ohio one of the top business-friendly states in the nation.

The Dayton Development Coalition offers personalized assistance to businesses exploring opportunities in the Dayton Region. Our professional team can coordinate every element of your search, from finding the right location to sourcing competitive initiatives and tax incentives. The DDC’s JobsOhio Western Region team specializes in assisting businesses with state-sponsored loan and grant programs.

The network we foster with local, state, and federal officials, as well as other businesses, enable us to make new connections for our partner businesses. By tapping into our vast network of economic development partners, we help businesses find and compare different sites that best fit their immediate and long-term needs in terms of space, infrastructure, visibility, expansion potential, market reach, and more.

Learn how the Dayton Region’s reduced operating costs, competitive wages, access to markets, and talented workforce can benefit your business and how we can help lay the groundwork for success.

The Dayton Region's Advantage
  • Outside Magazine named Dayton “Best Rebirth of the American Dream.”
  • Top 10 for 14 straight years in Site Selection Magazine’s Governor’s Cup
  • 3rd in the U.S. for Manufacturing (Business Facilities)
  • 3rd in the U.S. for STEM Jobs Growth, according to (Business Facilities)
  • 4th largest concentration of engineers per capita, (Forbes)
  • One of five affordable cities for engineers and recent grads to find jobs (Livability)
  • One of 17 communities nationwide designated today as a Talent Hub by the Lumina Foundation for its collaborative efforts to increase college access and attainment as a way of “attracting, retaining, and cultivating talent.”
  • Top 10 city for engineering jobs, (Forbes)
  • Top 10 STEM Community, (Forbes)
Inclusive Growth

The Brookings Institute found Dayton to be one of only 11 of the top 100 metro areas achieving “inclusive growth” in 2017. Measured one way—by improving the employment rate, median earnings, and relative poverty—only 11 of the 30 metro areas achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Metro areas that did manage to achieve inclusive growth of some kind shared a few common traits around recent job growth. In general, they:

  • Tended to add jobs in high-skilled traded sectors like advanced business and professional services, information, and manufacturing at a rate faster than the nation
  • Tended to add jobs in lower-paid types of work within those traded sectors; the traded sectors cited above typically grew less productive and/or saw their average wages decline, suggesting hiring was skewed in favor of middle- or low-skilled workers
  • Balanced “traded-sector” job growth with growth of good-paying jobs for middle-skilled workers in non-traded sectors like construction, logistics, and health care
  • Relied on traded and secondary sectors to fuel modest growth of typically local-serving sectors like hospitality and retail that don’t pay well, but expand employment opportunities for less-skilled workers
America's First Welcoming City

The City of Dayton became Welcome America’s first official “Welcoming City,” understanding the value of inclusivity and the import role immigrants play in our region’s growth. 

Communities that become Certified Welcoming capitalize on the power of immigrants to energize their neighborhoods, economy, and culture. Certification builds a competitive advantage and gain access to opportunities to be recognized and share integration practices on a regional, national, and global stage.

Dayton completed an intensive evaluation to earn the Certified Welcoming evaluation, led by the Welcome Dayton initiative.  Local policies and programs were compared to  the comprehensive Welcoming Standard that covers community investments from  education to economic development to policing.

Ohio's Pro-business Tax Climate
  • No corporate profits or income tax
  • No tangible personal property tax
  • No inventory tax
  • No tax on products sold outside of Ohio
  • No tax on machinery and equipment investments
  • No tax on R&D investments
  • No tax on first $1 million in taxable gross receipts
  • Single, Low-Rate Business Tax
  • Ohio has only one state business tax – The Commercial Activity Tax (0.26%)
  • Outside Magazine named Dayton “Best Rebirth of the American Dream.”
  • Top 10 for 14 straight years in Site Selection Magazine’s Governor’s Cup
  • 3rd in the U.S. for Manufacturing (Business Facilities)
  • 3rd in the U.S. for STEM Jobs Growth, according to (Business Facilities)
  • 4th largest concentration of engineers per capita, (Forbes)
  • One of five affordable cities for engineers and recent grads to find jobs (Livability)
  • One of 17 communities nationwide designated today as a Talent Hub by the Lumina Foundation for its collaborative efforts to increase college access and attainment as a way of “attracting, retaining, and cultivating talent.”
  • Top 10 city for engineering jobs, (Forbes)
  • Top 10 STEM Community, (Forbes)

The Brookings Institute found Dayton to be one of only 11 of the top 100 metro areas achieving “inclusive growth” in 2017. Measured one way—by improving the employment rate, median earnings, and relative poverty—only 11 of the 30 metro areas achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Metro areas that did manage to achieve inclusive growth of some kind shared a few common traits around recent job growth. In general, they:

  • Tended to add jobs in high-skilled traded sectors like advanced business and professional services, information, and manufacturing at a rate faster than the nation
  • Tended to add jobs in lower-paid types of work within those traded sectors; the traded sectors cited above typically grew less productive and/or saw their average wages decline, suggesting hiring was skewed in favor of middle- or low-skilled workers
  • Balanced “traded-sector” job growth with growth of good-paying jobs for middle-skilled workers in non-traded sectors like construction, logistics, and health care
  • Relied on traded and secondary sectors to fuel modest growth of typically local-serving sectors like hospitality and retail that don’t pay well, but expand employment opportunities for less-skilled workers

The City of Dayton became Welcome America’s first official “Welcoming City,” understanding the value of inclusivity and the import role immigrants play in our region’s growth. 

Communities that become Certified Welcoming capitalize on the power of immigrants to energize their neighborhoods, economy, and culture. Certification builds a competitive advantage and gain access to opportunities to be recognized and share integration practices on a regional, national, and global stage.

Dayton completed an intensive evaluation to earn the Certified Welcoming evaluation, led by the Welcome Dayton initiative.  Local policies and programs were compared to  the comprehensive Welcoming Standard that covers community investments from  education to economic development to policing.

  • No corporate profits or income tax
  • No tangible personal property tax
  • No inventory tax
  • No tax on products sold outside of Ohio
  • No tax on machinery and equipment investments
  • No tax on R&D investments
  • No tax on first $1 million in taxable gross receipts
  • Single, Low-Rate Business Tax
  • Ohio has only one state business tax – The Commercial Activity Tax (0.26%)

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