Originally Posted by
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But to answer your question, one big factor is that the largest employer in the state of Ohio, Wright-Patterson AFB, is in the Dayton metro area and that employer generates a lot of travel in both directions (people at WPAFB traveling to other locations and people in other locations coming to WPAFB for business) by nature of the primary mission here at WPAFB.
Are you sure about the claim that Wright-Pat is the largest employer in the state? My cursory examination says that the Cleveland Clinic, Kroger, Wal-Mart, Amazon, three hospital systems in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus and OSU all employ more people. But ninth isn't bad. I don't have anything against Dayton (in fact, I enjoyed two nights of basketball there recently) but the metro area is down in population over the last two decades.