What Makes Oakland County Attractive to Businesses?

• Editor & Publisher Magazine rates Oakland County 94.09 on a scale of 100 for Better Living (an index comparing cost-of-living, crime and education.)  
• Over 50 percent of Global Fortune 500 companies have a business location in the County.  
• Over 700 companies representing 34 countries doing business in the county.
• 16 colleges and universities, plus Oakland Community College with five campuses.
• Adjacent to Canada and two-thirds of its GNP.
• Oakland County is the seventh wealthiest county in the United States among counties with more than one million people.
• More than 700,000 people work in Oakland County's 42,000 business establishments and government agencies. 
• Oakland County's 2004 population is estimated to be 1,213,339.
• Staff of the Planning & Economic Development Services Division is ready to work for you.

Read more at our Economic Development Website, GlobalOakland.com.