Living in Louisville
Known best worldwide for the Kentucky Derby, Louisville is about much more than horses. Sandra Gervis (not a Louisvillian!) named Louisville one of the “30 Great Cities to Start Out In” in her 1997 book of the same title. She proclaimed it “ideal for those who like big small towns. . . The city is pretty, clean, and safe, so just about any old excuse to move there will do. . . Add these advantages to rising income levels, grade-A schools, a lively and varied arts scene, good restaurants, more parklands per capita than any other U.S. city, excellent health care, and — at 120 feet and 68,000 pounds — the tallest free-standing baseball bat in the world (at the Louisville Slugger Museum), and you’ve hit a home run.”
Louisville was in 1999 named the 14th “most livable” place in North America by “Places Rated Almanac” (not a Louisville-based publication!) The rankings are based on how a city fares under nine criteria: climate, transportation, health care, education, the arts, recreation, jobs, crime, and cost of living. The “Places Rated” ranking of metropolitan areas placed Louisville 14th out of 354 cities in the United States and Canada. Louisville has consistently been ranked highly by “Places Rated”: it was 8th in 1985 and 1989, and 10th in 1993. “Places Rated” also named Louisville a “Solid Metro Area” because it was one of only eight communities that have been ranked in the top 35 in five of the last six “Places Rated” editions (The Courier-Journal, January 7, 2000).
About Louisville
Greater Louisville Inc. — Metro Chamber of Commerce
Greater Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau
