Louisville is killing it in Yelp’s latest business growth rankings

Alfred Miller | Courier Journal

Give Louisville five stars on Yelp.

Business in Louisville is on the upswing, says Yelp, the online review company.

Among the nation’s top 50 cities, Louisville ranked fourth in the rate of new businesses added to Yelp’s platform between April and June. That’s up from 27th over the same period last year and 18th earlier this year, according to Yelp’s analysis.

Most of the new businesses were in Louisville’s Okolona and Middletown neighborhoods and involved in what the company describes as health, beauty and home services, Yelp spokeswoman Kathleen Liu wrote in an email.

In the latest rankings, Louisville trailed Las Vegas, Austin and Miami. Home-services — movers, mortgage brokers and construction specialists — propelled Las Vegas and Austin to the top slots, while doctors and salons drove Miami, the company said in a news release

Yelp ranks cities by the rate of change in the number of businesses between a quarter's start and end, the company said in a news release. It counts business openings and closures by when those events are registered on Yelp by users and business owners.

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