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Commercial Real Estate Credit —
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

The state of disclosed CRE credit in this market · KY, OH
The read
$1.4B of CMBS across 59 loans. Hospitality carries the highest distress rate (37.8%, above the 6.1% national, 6.2× national). Distress is rising in the filed record — 16.5% as of 2026-07. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029 ($375M, 26% of the book). 34 on-the-ground distress events in the past year (2,307 jobs).
Overview
CMBS
Submarkets
Local Banks
Jobs & Demand
On The Ground
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The CMBS properties our stress model flags here, plus recent store closures and layoffs. Stressed is a wider net than distressed — the distressed figure above counts only loans already in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, while these dots also include performing loans facing maturity or coverage pressure. Property dots sit at the center of their ZIP code, not the building — they show where stress concentrates, not which asset. Closures and layoffs are pinned to address where we have it. Open any dot to the building and the loan behind it →
Hospitality Sets the Tone in Cincinnati, and the Filed Record Is Turning Up

Cincinnati carries $1.4 billion of CMBS across 59 loans, a mid-sized book by national standards, and the pressure inside it is concentrated rather than broad. Hospitality is the sore spot: the sector's distress rate runs 37.8%, against a 6.1% national mark for the same property type — 6.2 times the national rate. That is the number that defines this metro right now, and it sits well clear of anything else on the page.

The filed record is moving in one direction. Distress reads 16.5% as of July 2026, and the trend line has been rising, not holding. This is status the servicer has already declared — loans in special servicing or 60-plus days delinquent — not a projection, and the direction of travel is what warrants attention here.

The refinancing calendar is loaded toward the back end. The heaviest maturity load lands in 2029, when $375 million comes due — 26% of the book — a single year that dwarfs the metro's other maturity walls. On the ground, the past year brought 32 distress events tied to 2,307 jobs, a real-economy backdrop that sits underneath the loan-level numbers.

CMBS Distressed UPB
$240M / 17.0% in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent
CMBS Maturing ≤ 24mo
$257M
Local Banks (stressed)
2 / 19
Bank Early-Warning
4 flagged
Store Closures (1y)
14
Layoff Notices (1y)
20 / 2,307 jobs 0.24% of metro employment
CMBS Loans / UPB
59 / $1.4B
Unemployment · Jul 2026
3.7% -1.1pp yr

How much CRE distress is there in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN right now?

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN currently shows 3 of 4 signals elevated — store closures, WARN layoff notices, and securitized loans in special servicing are all hot — while bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line reads quiet. Notably, the 3 pairs both elevated and 3 pairs disagreeing split the six pair readings evenly, with 0 pairs both quiet. The store closures leg is elevated by size, not by rate: it ranks 34th of 392 metros by count but 230th by rate per 100k jobs (1.34 closures per 100,000 jobs), a fork the data flags explicitly. WARN notices rank 34th of 386 by count and 114th by rate (0.2% of employment). The CMBS leg is the strongest per-unit signal: 16.49% of the securitized balance read here sits in special servicing, ranking 21st of 335 by count and 27th by rate. The bank leg, at 0.24% of allocated CRE over the noncurrent line (rank 187th of 393 by count, 319th by rate), remains quiet — but its allocation by branch deposits is a caveat since only 6.8% of dollars sit at single-metro banks. Disagreements here reflect mechanism, not error: closures-hot with bank-quiet reads as "tenants are leaving and no lender balance sheet shows it yet," and WARN-hot with bank-quiet reads as "employment is going before any lender books it." The CMBS-bank split — tape hot, bank cold — points to national capital stress no local lender is carrying. Three pair agreements (closures-WARN, closures-CMBS, WARN-CMBS) all read hot, reinforcing that the stress is real across property-level and employment feeds, even as the lender-side picture lags.

The figures behind this answer
SignalLevel Rate Rank by count Rank by rate Reading
store closures
store closures per 100,000 jobs
13 closures 1.34 per 100k jobs 34 of 392 230 of 392 elevated
trailing 365 days to today
layoff notices (WARN)
workers on layoff notices as a share of the metro's employment
20 notices 0.2% 34 of 386 114 of 386 elevated
trailing 365 days to today
bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
share of the CRE lent into this metro that sits at a lender over the blended-noncurrent line
$77.0mm 0.24% 187 of 393 319 of 393 quiet
allocated
2026-03-31
securitized loans in special servicing
share of the securitized balance read here that is in special servicing
9 loan records 16.49% 21 of 335 27 of 335 elevated
2026-07-29
6 pairs compared 3 both elevated 0 both quiet 3 disagreeing 0 unreadable — a side is blind 3 of four legs elevated
one metro, four independent feeds, each on its own denominator
{'coverage': "114 of 441 metros have at least one blind leg and 48 are blind on all four. Those 48 are the same metros the board's map cannot place and the metro resolver cannot name: one ZIP-to-CBSA crosswalk boundary, showing up three ways.", 'a_count_ranks_by_size': 'Elevation is computed on the COUNT, over a flat threshold, which is a size filter. New York is 2nd of 392 by store closures and 264th of the same 392 by closures per job — both true, and which one you lead with decides what the reader believes. Every leg carries both ranks over ONE population; quote the rate beside the count.', 'disagreement_is_not_severity': 'Where two legs disagree, that is usually a fact about WHICH mechanism is running, not an error in either feed and not a worse metro. The six pairs read different populations, and each note is a STRUCTURAL prior about those populations — nothing here measures a lead or a lag between two legs, so never report one as timing.', 'a_blind_leg_is_not_a_quiet_one': "A leg with no denominator, or whose numerator cannot be measured, reads LOW and means nothing. Each leg publishes a measurement state (allocated, floor, measured, no denominator, no rate, not measurable) for that reason. Never report a blind leg as 'no distress'."}
{'fork': 'elevated by size, not by rate', 'note': 'store closures clear a flat count threshold while sitting below the median of their own rate ranking. Any reading that leans on them is a statement about how big this metro is.'}
{'leg': 'closures', 'unit': 'jobs', 'as_of': 'trailing 365 days to today', 'value': 969487, 'measures': 'store closures', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'window', 'what_it_is': "all metro jobs, QCEW annual average — a SIZE normaliser, not a matched population: the feed spans retail, food service and pharmacy and no single QCEW sector covers it. The MATCHED read sits beside it as this leg's second reading"}
{'leg': 'warn', 'unit': 'employed', 'as_of': 'trailing 365 days to today', 'value': 1145931, 'measures': 'layoff notices (WARN)', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'window', 'what_it_is': 'employed persons, BLS LAUS, not seasonally adjusted'}
{'leg': 'bank', 'unit': '$mm', 'as_of': '2026-03-31', 'value': 32307.3, 'measures': 'bank CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'stamp', 'what_it_is': 'bank CRE allocated to this metro by branch deposits'}
{'leg': 'cmbs', 'unit': '$mm', 'as_of': '2026-07-29', 'value': 1455.0, 'measures': 'securitized loans in special servicing', 'available': True, 'as_of_kind': 'stamp', 'what_it_is': "current balance on the non-pari-passu rows of this tape — the trust's slice, not the whole loan, on both sides of the ratio"}
Written from the figures above · CBSA 17140 · stress_metro · last changed 28 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →

Which distress signals are elevated in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, and which cannot be read?

In Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, the elevated distress signals are concentrated in CMBS special servicing, ground-level closures, and WARN notices. Specifically, the CMBS special servicing UPB is $240.0mm, representing a 16.5% share of metro UPB, with 9 loans in special servicing. Additionally, there are 13 store closures and 20 WARN notices over the past year. However, bank-side distress is not readable: the share of bank CRE at the 90th percentile is 8.6%, total bank CRE is $32.31bn (with a 6.8% allocation), and distressed lender CRE is $77.0mm (distressed bank assets: 0.3). The convergence score is 3, signaling a confirmed phase with leading and realized credit signals firing together.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS in special servicing
$240.0mm
… as a share of this metro's CMBS balance
16.5%
Bank CRE lent into this metro
$32.31bn
… at risk at the 90th percentile
8.6%
CRE at lenders over the noncurrent line
$77.0mm
Assets at those lenders
$0.30bn
… share needing no branch-deposit allocation
6.8%
Signals reading elevated
CMBS in special servicing, store closures, WARN layoff notices
Legs agreeing
3
Phase
peak
CMBS loans in special servicing
9
Distressed banks
2
Store closures (past year)
13
WARN notices (past year)
20
leading (real-economy) and realized (credit) signals are firing together
hundreds of millions of distressed CRE exposure
credit distress AND ground-level distress, with real dollars behind the credit side
Written from the figures above · CBSA 17140 · geo_metro_signals · last changed 27 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →
Jobs & Demand — the labor market under the collateralWatch it change →
Every other zone on this page reads the credit — what the loan is doing. This one reads the demand underneath it. Office jobs pay office rent; office rent services the office loan. When the jobs go, the DSCR follows — but not for another year or two. That lag is the whole point of looking here.
Unemployment · Jul 2026
3.7% -1.1pp yr
Last 24 months
3.1%5.0%
Monthly metro unemployment (BLS LAUS) — the freshest labor signal there is, about six weeks behind. Read the direction, not the level: a 4% metro that is rising and a 6% metro that is falling are not telling you the same thing.
Jobs by CRE-relevant sector · 2024
Retail trade
100,139 jobs · -0.8% yr
Annual employment by sector (BLS QCEW, 2024; 969,487 jobs in the metro). QCEW lags — it is the structural read, not the current one, and we pair it with the monthly unemployment above on purpose. Office-using sums five supersectors; where BLS withholds any one of them for disclosure, we show nothing rather than a number we know is too low — so a missing sector here means “suppressed at the source,” not “zero.”
Sector Heat — CMBS distress rate by property type (metro vs national)See the loans behind the bar →
This metro's CMBS runs 17.0% distressed where its own property mix predicts 6.1% — $154M more than this book would carry at the rate each property type runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted and excluding this metro. The gap is measured; the cause is not. 3 of 4 property types here run a higher distress rate than the national average for that type (the tick on each bar).
Hospitality
37.8% metro · 6.1% US · $184M
Multifamily
36.0% metro · 7.6% US · $167M
Office
12.2% metro · 11.3% US · $388M
Retail
0.0% metro · 2.7% US · $370M
Elimination — does the gap survive a control?
Each row re-prices this metro's book on a finer cell — its own property types, then those types split by loan size, then by vintage — always at the rate that cell runs elsewhere in the country, dollar-weighted. A gap that shrinks toward zero is explained by the control; one that stays has ruled it out. What is measured is what survives, not a cause.
property mix alone
+10.9pp
… and loan size held fixed
+10.5pp
the gap is still there with loan size held fixed too
… and vintage held fixed
+11.5pp
the gap is still there with vintage held fixed too
The largest single contributor is Hospitality: 11 loans, $183M, running 37.8% where the same type runs 5.9% elsewhere — worth 4.1pp of this metro's own rate.
Maturity Wall — CMBS coming due by year, distress within eachSee what’s maturing →
$257M — 18% of the metro's balance — matures within two years; the red slice of each bar is already distressed.
2027
$177M · 10 loans · 47.6%
2028
$202M · 11 loans · 0.0%
2029
$375M · 11 loans · 0.0%
2030
$199M · 9 loans · 0.0%
2031
$104M · 8 loans · 0.0%
2032
$27M · 2 loans · 100.0%
2033
$233M · 4 loans · 25.8%
2034
$28M · 2 loans · 0.0%
2035
$3M · 1 loan · 0.0%
Distress Trend — is this market turning?Track it quarter by quarter →
Realized distress is RISING16.5% now (2026-07), +2.7pp over the year.
Same definition as the cards above — distressed means in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, dollar-weighted — on a different clock. The cards are today’s tape; this is the disclosed history panel, quarter by quarter, so you can read direction rather than level. Trusts file monthly, so a quarter is usually well covered within weeks of opening and the newest one shown is normally the current one; it is withheld only when its filed book falls below 60% of recent quarters.
Share of the metro’s CMBS in special servicing or 60+ days delinquent, by quarter — a firmer, backward-looking read. A loan under 1.0x DSCR that is still paying is not counted here.
Submarket Heat — where in the metro the distress sitsOpen the submarket →
The top three submarkets hold $1.0B of the metro's $1.4B; each bar's colored share is its distress rate.
Blue Ash / Sharonville
$441M · 1.6%
Downtown Cincinnati
$369M · 56.0%
West Chester / Mason
$232M · 0.0%
Eastgate / Milford
$109M · 0.0%
Covington / Newport
$93M · 0.0%
Florence / Boone County
$84M · 0.0%
Norwood / Oakley
$58M · 35.8%
Uptown / Clifton
$30M · 19.9%
Bank Door — what the local bank sector could absorbSee it on every loan’s exit read →
$257M of CMBS matures here within two years. The 29 regional and local banks that gather deposits here could write roughly $2.7B more CRE before the 300% supervisory line, so the maturing balance is 0.10× that room. The median metro sits at 0.12×.
Regional Bank Room
$2.7B
After Committed Draws
$1.8B / −32%
Maturing ÷ Room
0.10×
Banks In Footprint
29 / 2 at the line
The room above is already part-sold. Construction lending is a promise drawn down over two or three years, and the undrawn part is an obligation the bank cannot decline while the borrower performs — every one of those dollars lands in the same CRE book the 300% line governs. These banks have $1.1B of construction committed and not yet advanced, of which $866M comes out of the room above, leaving $1.8B, with 6 banks whose entire remaining room is spoken for. A bank with no room contributes zero here, never a negative one — capacity does not net across balance sheets — so $256M of what has been promised is not deducted at all, because there is nothing left to deduct it from. On today’s capital that is funding already contracted which would cross the line as it draws. SR 06-26 draws a second line at 100% of capital for construction and land: 11 more cross it once their own commitments fund.
Counted — 29 regional & local CRE lenders
BankDeposit shareCRE / Capital*Room contributedNoncurrent CRE
First Financial Bank OH 42.8% 169%
total 215%
🔒 0.91%
Union Savings Bank OH 45.3% 128%
total 128%
🔒 0.21%
The North Side Bank And Trust Company OH 100.0% 156%
total 259%
🔒 0.00%
Republic Bank & Trust Company KY 8.4% 125%
total 186%
🔒 0.25%
The Harrison Building And Loan Association OH 100.0% 107%
total 137%
🔒 0.07%
Valley Central Bank OH 100.0% 122%
total 184%
🔒 3.47%
First Commonwealth Bank PA 5.1% 205%
total 260%
🔒 0.71%
The Park National Bank OH 4.5% 197%
total 270%
🔒 0.81%
Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company KY 9.6% 248%
total 359%
🔒 0.20%
1st National Bank OH 99.4% 133%
total 203%
🔒 0.17%
The Friendship State Bank IN 41.2% 113%
total 171%
🔒 0.00%
Civista Bank OH 16.8% 261%
total 329%
🔒 0.63%
First State Bank OH 21.9% 183%
total 201%
🔒 0.18%
Fcn Bank, National Association IN 72.5% 247%
total 324%
🔒 0.00%
The Cincinnatus Savings & Loan Co. OH 100.0% 201%
total 238%
🔒 0.16%
German American Bank IN 3.3% 222%
total 306%
🔒 0.21%
Central Bank & Trust Co. KY 11.2% 261%
total 333%
🔒 0.01%
Forcht Bank, National Association KY 27.8% 249%
total 329%
🔒 0.00%
The Merchants National Bank OH 9.8% 149%
total 240%
🔒 0.59%
Community Savings Bank OH 63.0% 136%
total 152%
🔒 0.00%
Heritage Bank, Inc. KY 100.0% 295%
total 403%
🔒 0.00%
First National Bank Of Kentucky KY 22.6% 186%
total 329%
🔒 0.57%
Cfbank, National Association OH 8.4% 279%
total 362%
🔒 0.53%
Farmers & Merchants Bank OH 9.2% 240%
total 432%
🔒 1.56%
Community Trust Bank, Inc. KY 0.2% 165%
total 206%
🔒 0.39%
The Farmers & Merchants State Bank OH 0.6% 231%
total 374%
🔒 0.00%
Peoples Exchange Bank KY 0.7% 246%
total 359%
🔒 0.00%
Riverhills Bank OH 100.0% 493%
total 567%
🔒 0.15%
Lcnb National Bank OH 68.4% 386%
total 492%
🔒 0.23%
Not counted — 19 banks with deposits here
These hold deposits in this metro but are left out of the capacity above, because for them deposit location stops indicating where they lend — or they do not lend CRE at all. Real money that could refinance here is deliberately not counted.
no CRE book — CRE under 100% of capital — not a CRE lender
U.s. Bank National Association OH · Fifth Third Bank, National Association OH · Pnc Bank, National Association DE · The Huntington National Bank OH · Jpmorgan Chase Bank, National Association OH · Truist Bank NC · Keybank National Association OH · Guardian Savings Bank OH · Bank Of America, National Association NC · Miami Savings Bank OH · Bath State Bank IN · Warsaw Federal Savings And Loan Association OH · Somerville Bank OH · Southern Hills Community Bank OH · The Farmers State Bank OH
national — operates in more than 5 states, so deposits stop indicating where it lends
Peoples Bank OH · Wesbanco Bank, Inc. WV · Woodforest National Bank TX
booked here — books nearly all deposits to one branch — a charter address, not a footprint
Spring Valley Bank OH
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
How to read this. It is not whether any particular loan can refinance — a borrower also reaches national banks, life companies, agencies and debt funds. It is how much of this metro’s maturing volume the local bank sector could absorb if it were the only door. Banks are placed by deposit share (FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2025) — a proxy for where they lend, not a measurement; call reports carry no collateral geography. Room = 3× total risk-based capital less CRE held (SR 06-26, the capital base the rule names — not book equity), from Q2 2026 call reports, apportioned by that share. Committed construction comes from FFIEC Schedule RC-L as filed at 2026-06-30 — the undrawn half of loans already written, which the balance sheet above does not show. Banks in more than 5 states, single-branch bookers and banks that do not lend CRE are excluded — 313 banks holding $268.2B of national capacity not counted here.
Local Lenders — banks headquartered here, worst CRE noncurrent firstUnlock each bank’s early-warning flag →
BankTotal CRECRE / Capital*Noncurrent CREEarly Warning
Valley Central Bank $70M 122%
total 184%
3.47% 🔒
Fifth Third Bank, National Association $33.6B 68%
total 106%
0.77% 🔒
1st National Bank $54M 133%
total 203%
0.17% 🔒
The North Side Bank And Trust Company $367M 156%
total 259%
0.00% 🔒
U.s. Bank National Association $50.7B 57%
total 70%
1.12% 🔒
First Financial Bank $5.0B 169%
total 215%
0.91% 🔒
Spring Valley Bank $64M 102%
total 165%
0.24% 🔒
Lcnb National Bank $1.1B 386%
total 492%
0.23% 🔒
* Two ratios, two perimeters. The large figure is supervisory CRE over total risk-based capital — construction, multifamily and non-owner-occupied nonfarm nonresidential. That is the book SR 06-26 draws its 300% line against, and it is what the red coloring and the room contributed are both measured on. Total beneath it adds owner-occupied CRE — lending to a business on its own premises — which the guidance deliberately leaves out. A bank can sit well above 300% on total CRE and still be inside the line, with real room to lend; both are shown so the gap is visible rather than surprising.
Banks are matched to their HQ metro (a proxy for footprint). Noncurrent CRE = CRE-balance-weighted blend of multifamily / nonresidential / construction noncurrent (distress already arrived). Early Warning is a validated leading signal — the bank’s 30-89 early-delinquency rank among all CRE lenders this quarter, which has predicted ~2.3× forward CRE distress. Per-bank flags are on a plan.

Do the banks lending in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN have the capacity to refinance its maturing CRE?

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN sits in the slack capacity band, meaning local banks have ample room to refinance the metro’s maturing CMBS. The 24-month maturity wall is $257.4mm across 14 loans against $1.82bn of room after committed construction draws, yielding a wall-to-room ratio of 0.14 — below the median of 0.20, so this market is less strained than typical. Even before accounting for committed draws, the ratio is 0.10. With 29 banks qualifying and 4 excluded here, the distressed share is 17.0%, but the low ratio — not an exclusion artifact — indicates capacity is not the binding constraint. The rank of 167 of 270 (from most strained) confirms a moderate, manageable position.

The figures behind this answer
CMBS maturing in the window
$257.4mm
… across this many loans
14
Local bank room, before committed draws
$2.69bn
Committed construction draws
$1.12bn
Local bank room, after those draws
$1.82bn
Wall-to-room ratio
0.14
Rank, most strained
167
… out of this many metros ranked
270
… before committed draws
0.10
Population ranked against
CMBS maturing within 24 months against regional/community bank room in this metro
Qualifying local banks
29
… excluded from the calculation
4
Distressed share of this metro's CMBS
17.0%
Total CMBS balance here
$1.42bn
Capacity band
slack
Compared against a median wall-to-room ratio of 0.20 across the ranked metros.
0.14 is BELOW the median of 0.20, so this metro is LESS strained than the typical ranked metro
167 of 270, counting from the MOST strained — a LOWER rank number means MORE strain
{'room_is_a_proxy': 'Room is what regional and community banks could still write before the SR 06-26 concentration line, after deducting construction draws already committed. Deposit footprint is a proxy for lending footprint, not a measurement of it.', 'ratio_is_not_size': 'The most extreme ratios belong to the smallest metros. Read maturing_bal_mm beside the ratio — the map sizes bubbles by the wall, not the strain, for exactly this reason.', 'wall_is_cmbs_only': "The wall is the CMBS balance maturing within 24 months — the maturing debt this platform can see, not the metro's whole maturity load. Every ratio is an upper bound on how much of it local banks would have to absorb.", 'exclusion_artifact': 'A high ratio is as often an exclusion artifact as a credit event. Banks whose deposits do not indicate where they lend (nationals, card and charter banks) are excluded from the room, so a metro served mainly by those reads strained while its credit is simply invisible here. Check banks_qualifying against banks_excluded_here, and explained_by_exclusion.'}
Written from the figures above · CBSA 17140 · capacity_metro · last changed 06 Sep 2026 · Ask your own question →
On The Ground — recent closures, layoffs & CRE bankruptciesTie these events to loans →
34 local distress events in the past year (2,307 jobs) — store closures, layoffs, and commercial real estate bankruptcies near this metro's collateral.
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Grocery Outlet
Cincinnati
2026-12-31
CLOSURE
Grocery Outlet
Cincinnati
2026-09-08
LAYOFF
Geodis
73 jobs · Boone
2026-08-30
LAYOFF
Levi Strauss & Co
303 jobs · Boone
2026-08-06
LAYOFF
Sodexo CTM, LLC
66 jobs · West Chester/Butler
2026-08-04
LAYOFF
SDH Services West, LLC
488 jobs · Cincinnati/Hamilton
2026-08-03
LAYOFF
UPDATE Republic National Distributing Company
56 jobs · Cincinnati/Hamilton
2026-08-03
LAYOFF
80 Acres Urban Agriculture, Inc.
145 jobs · Hamilton/Butler
2026-08-03
LAYOFF
80 Acres Farm
127 jobs · Boone
2026-07-31
CLOSURE
Cincinnati hat store
Cincinnati
2026-07-30
LAYOFF
Bridgeway Pointe
49 jobs · Cincinnati/Hamilton
2026-07-29
LAYOFF
UPDATE Down-Lite International Inc
164 jobs · Mason/Warren
2026-07-28
CLOSURE
Cincinnati institution
Cincinnati
2026-07-14
LAYOFF
UPDATE Refresco Beverages US Inc
44 jobs · Carlisle/Warren
2026-06-18
CLOSURE
Gap Inc.
Cincinnati

What has actually happened on the ground in Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN recently?

Over the trailing 365 days, Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN has recorded 0 CRE bankruptcies, with 20 WARN notices affecting 2,307 jobs and 13 store closures. The 2,307 jobs figure is a floor since notices with no stated headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, and bankruptcy data is a state proxy rather than a metro-native count. No other ground-level metrics are available beyond these readings.

The figures behind this answer
Store closures
13
WARN layoff notices
20
Jobs on those notices
2,307
CRE-related bankruptcies
0
Window, in days
365
STATE PROXY — bankruptcy filings carry the filer's state, not the property's location, so this counts CRE-likely filings in the states this metro's collateral sits in. It is not a metro-native count.
affected_employees is nullable — notices that state no headcount are counted but contribute 0 jobs, so this is a floor.
Closures are matched ZIP -> CBSA and only APPROVED rows count (a pending, machine-extracted row is not yet a closure). This mirrors the Metro Pulse page, not the convergence board — the board applies neither filter and counts higher. Layoffs take the same ZIP -> CBSA and review treatment, and a WARN notice counts if it affects >= 10 people or does not state a headcount (a NULL is not 'fewer than 10').
Written from the figures above · CBSA 17140 · geo_events · last changed 27 Aug 2026 · Ask your own question →
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