Wildbend Funding Group, a small-business funding service in Newark, Ohio, works with owners across Licking County, OH and nearby towns in Perry, Knox, Fairfield and Muskingum counties. Service runs by phone and online, so the process is the same wherever the business sits. Six nearby towns have their own page; others are summarized below with Census figures labeled by ZIP.
How this list works
Distances are straight-line miles from Newark, OH, based on Census place points. Business counts come from the U.S. Census Bureau's ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 and describe the whole postal ZIP, which can be much larger than the town; each paragraph says how much of the ZIP's land the town covers. Business loans near Newark, OH work the same way here as anywhere else on this list: by phone or online.
Heath, OH
About 3 miles southwest of Newark, OH. ZIP 43056 had 446 employer establishments in 2023, with retail leading at 104. Read about business funding in Heath, OH.
Granville, OH
A village about 6 miles west. ZIP 43023 had 326 employer establishments, led by health care and professional services. See business funding in Granville, OH.
Hebron, OH
A village about 8 miles southwest. Manufacturing led ZIP 43025's 156 employer establishments. See business funding in Hebron, OH.
Thornville, OH (Perry County, OH)
About 11 miles south, across the line in Perry County, OH. ZIP 43076 had 111 employer establishments. See business funding in Thornville, OH.
Johnstown, OH
About 17 miles west-northwest. Construction led ZIP 43031's 266 employer establishments. See business funding in Johnstown, OH.
Pataskala, OH
About 17 miles west. ZIP 43062 had 476 employer establishments, with 80 in construction. See business funding in Pataskala, OH.
More towns in Licking County, OH
St. Louisville, OH (about 8 miles north; ZIP 43071 had 31 employer establishments) and Alexandria, OH (about 12 miles west-northwest; ZIP 43001 had 57) are small villages inside much larger ZIP areas: each covers less than 1% of its ZIP's land. Hanover, OH, Marne, OH, Jacksontown, OH, Kirkersville, OH, Etna, OH and Hartford (Croton), OH are nearby communities with too little published business data for a page of their own. Owners in all of them can call or request online.
Utica, OH (about 13 miles north) straddles Licking County, OH and Knox County, OH; ZIP 43080 had 72 employer establishments. Buckeye Lake, OH (about 9 miles south-southwest) spans Licking County, OH and Fairfield County, OH; its ZIP 43008 had 51.
Neighboring counties
Zanesville, OH, about 22 miles east-southeast in Muskingum County, OH, is a nearby city outside Licking County, OH; ZIP 43701 had 1,352 employer establishments in 2023. Nashport, OH, Frazeysburg, OH and Dresden, OH sit in the same county. Mount Vernon, OH, about 23 miles north in Knox County, OH, had 686 employer establishments in ZIP 43050; Centerburg, OH is nearby.
To the southwest, Baltimore, OH, Millersport, OH, Carroll, OH and Bremen, OH are in Fairfield County, OH, and Somerset, OH and Junction City, OH are in Perry County, OH. To the west, Reynoldsburg, OH, New Albany, OH and Pickerington, OH span more than one county, so county figures do not describe them. Funding requests from all of these places work the same way.
Start from Newark, OH
The Newark, OH business data page has the city's ZIP and county figures, and the comparison of funding types explains each option. The six funding types are explained the same way for every town on this list.
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