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Welcome to the Highland Heights Home page. The Highland Heights Home page provides as much information as possible on Highland Heights. Knowing Highland Heights’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Highland Heights’s Home page, you will also find Highland Heights’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Highland Heights has a population of 7372. 44.4% of Highland Heights’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.6 are female. 24.2% of Highland Heights is married and 63.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $120,242, and the average rent is $912. Household median income in Highland Heights is $41,324, and the individual median income is $18,133. Highland Heights’s Ethnic is the following: White(87.2%), Black(5.9%), Asian(4.2%), Multiple(1.8%), Hispanic(1.7%), Other(0.6%), Native(0.3%).


The area has been known as "the Highlands" since the 19th century. The District of the Highlands was incorporated in 1867; Fort Thomas was separately incorporated from its northern reaches in 1914. The local post office was established in 1927, and the community of Highland Heights incorporated itself separately the same year.Northern Kentucky State College, previously sited in Park Hills, was relocated to a larger campus in the city in 1971.


It is now known as Northern Kentucky University (NKU), and subsidiary businesses and related developments have grown in the city.In October 2012 Highland Heights resident Ryan Poston was murdered in his home. The perpetrator was his girlfriend, Shayna Hubers, who shot him six times. The case and trials attracted considerable media attention.


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