Licking County, adjacent to rapidly sprawling Columbus, possesses all the qualities that provide good living in a good community. This once-sleepy agricultural community of farmers, hunters and tradespeople has grown to more than 160,000 people.

The local workforce boasts a wide range of skills and backgrounds from military personnel to doctors, blue-collar manufacturing workers, white-collar professionals and artisans.

The Licking River and Ohio Canal have been replaced as transportation arteries by half-a-dozen modern highways and large and small airports that literally connect Licking County with the rest of the country and the world.

New, thriving housing developments dot the landscape where cattle once roamed, and the still-vibrant agricultural community—once the area’s economic driver—is now the backdrop to modern hospitals, mass retailers, colleges, universities, manufacturers and professional-service firms.