Campbell County, KY Intelligence

Campbell County anchors the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati metro directly across the Ohio River, with about 93,000 residents split between Newport, Fort Thomas, Bellevue, Dayton, Alexandria, and Highland Heights. Alexandria is the official seat, but Newport remains the economic and cultural center — home to the Newport Aquarium, Newport on the Levee, and a river-town core that has gentrified steadily since the early 2000s. Fort Thomas holds some of the highest home values in Northern Kentucky; Bellevue and Dayton run a walkable-urbanism playbook aimed at Cincinnati commuters; Northern Kentucky University sits in Highland Heights and pulls a steady rental market. Median household income tops $77K, owner-occupancy runs 71% (lower than most KY counties, reflecting the urban rental stock), and foreclosure activity concentrates in the older river-city ZIPs (41071 Newport, 41074 Dayton, 41075 Fort Thomas) rather than the newer subdivisions south of I-275.