Ohio

Ohio Exports and Foreign Investment

• In 2025, Ohio exported $56.5 billion of goods to the world. In 2023, exports from Ohio supported an estimated 197 thousand jobs (latest data available).

Exports from Ohio and Jobs

• Ohio was the 11th largest state exporter of goods in 2025.
• In 2025, Ohio goods exports were $56.5 billion, an increase of 10 percent ($5.3 billion) from its export level in 2015.
• Goods exports accounted for 5.8 percent of Ohio GDP in 2025.
• Ohio goods exports in 2023 supported an estimated 197 thousand jobs (latest data available). Nationally, jobs supported by goods exports pay up to an estimated 18 percent above the national average.

Manufacturing Exports from Ohio and Jobs

• In 2025, Ohio exported $53.2 billion of manufactured products.
• Ohio exports of manufactured products supported an estimated 179 thousand jobs in 2023 (latest data available).
• The state's largest manufacturing export category is transportation equipment, which accounted for $18.8 billion of Ohio's total goods exports in 2025.
• Other top manufacturing exports are chemicals ($7.4 billion), machinery, except electrical ($6.3 billion), other fabricated metal products ($3.7 billion), and primary metal manufacturing ($3.4 billion).

Exports Sustain Thousands of Ohio Businesses Many of Which are SMEs

• A total of 14,927 companies exported from Ohio locations in 2024 (latest data available). Of those, 13,045 (87 percent) were small and medium sized enterprises with fewer than 500 employees.
• Small and medium-sized firms generated 26.0 percent of Ohio's total exports of goods in 2024.

Ohio's Largest Export Markets

• The state’s largest market was Canada. Ohio exported $18.3 billion in goods to Canada in 2025, representing 32 percent of the state’s total goods exports.
• Canada was followed by Mexico ($8.7 billion), China ($3.0 billion), France ($2.7 billion), and the United Kingdom ($2.4 billion).
• Ohio’s goods exports to major world areas included:

• 55 percent of Ohio’s goods exports ($31.3 billion) in 2025 went to current FTA partners.

Ohio's Top Agricultural Exports

• Ohio is the country’s 11th largest agricultural exporting state, shipping $4.9 billion in domestic agricultural exports abroad in 2024 (latest data available according to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture).^[1]
• Top agricultural exports were:

Product	2024 Value	2024 State Rank
soybeans	$1.6 billion	6
corn	$543 million	8
other plant products	$463 million	14
soybean meal	$407 million	6
feeds and other feed grains	$396 million	8

International Investment Creates Jobs in Ohio

• In 2024 (latest data available), foreign-controlled companies employed 322,400 Ohio workers. Major sources of foreign investment in Ohio included Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
• Foreign investment in Ohio was responsible for 6.2 percent of the state's total private-industry employment in 2024.

Ohio’s Major Metropolitan Areas Benefit from Exporting

• In 2024 (latest data available), the following metropolitan areas in Ohio recorded goods exports: Cincinnati ($38.8 billion), Cleveland ($9.7 billion), Columbus ($8 billion), Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek ($4.1 billion), Toledo ($3.5 billion), Akron ($3 billion), Huntington-Ashland ($1.7 billion), Youngstown-Warren ($1.6 billion), Canton-Massillon ($1.2 billion), Wheeling ($543.2 million), Sandusky ($528 million), Lima ($498.5 million), Weirton-Steubenville ($423.4 million), Mansfield ($415.4 million), and Springfield ($266.3 million).