Kentucky
Bowling Green
Population: 54,461
Labor force: 28,909
Startups per 1,000 people: 2.40
Small business per 1,000 people: 45
What to know about starting up in Bowling Green:
"It's a very friendly business climate, very pro-active chamber of commerce, a very good labor pool, both skilled and unskilled. It's a great a place to raise a family, a university town. It's growing by leaps and bounds. They're very pro-active about creating jobs--the Chamber and the state government, and the city. There's plenty of programs for training employees."
-David Bradford, president of aluminum recycling firm Owl's Head Alloys
