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WhyKhmelnytskyi

Khmelnytskyi, as a community center, is a modern and dynamic city with a high quality of life and a favorable investment climate. It consistently strives to be not only one steap ahead, but to determine the vector of development. The Khmelnytskyi city territorial community knows how to respond to challenges and how to turn them into opportunities for growth.

The community actively supports entrepreneurship and innovation. Municipal programs provide grants and consulting support for small and medium-sized businesses, while the business service infrastructure continues to develop. Moreover, international partners and investors are regularly engaged — the community remains open to transparent projects that generate employment and foster sustainable development.

High rates of opening new businesses, housing construction and retail turnover are the key factors of growing job opportunities in the city. Khmelnytskyi is driven by small and medium enterprises, focused on the trade and services sectors, clothing and textiles production, food processing, construction, industry and logistics, IT-sector. The Khmelnytskyi Industrial Park, , currently under construction, will provide new opportunities for industrial development, strengthening cooperation between companies, investors, local governments, economic development institutions and other stakeholders. Industrial park “Khmelnytskyi” will provide a modern, developed complex to attract domestic and foreign investors in priority sectors of the city.

Focus Magazine reports that the Khmelnytskyi City is the most comfortable in Ukraine after Kyiv and Lviv in 2021. The most positive aspects of quality of life in Khmelnytskyi make the city a wonderful place to live.

The city's residents also highly value the quality of life. According to the 2024 municipal survey by the International Republican Institute (IRI), 63% of citizens believe the city is moving in the right direction.

The city stands out for the availability of medical services, the quality of education, the development of pedestrian and cycling infrastructure, and the proactive role of local authorities in addressing urban challenges.

Population of Khmelnytskyi is about equal to European cities such as Rzeszow (Poland), Salzburg (Austria), Aachen (Germany), Wiesbaden (Germany), Chemnitz (Germany), Magdeburg (Germany), Erfurt (Germany), Potsdam (Germany), Strasbourg (France), Lille (France), Kosice (Slovakia). Over 70 percent of Khmelnytskyi’s population is of working age and the labor market is full of young, ambitious and highly qualified people ready to work. The high share of employees with experience in the city's priority sectors is typical of Khmelnytskyi. These include trade, light industry, food sector, logistics, transport and warehousing, ICT and BPO/SSC, construction, engineering. Strong faculties in the fields of engineering, information technology, business administration or linguistic are the perfect source of employees for businesses from all sectors. Additional assets for potential investors are attractive labor and employment costs in comparison with other Central and Eastern European cities.

Khmelnytskyi is a city of small and medium-sized enterprises. Registration of a new business is free of charge and takes place within one day at a single location. The cost of registering a property right is UAH 300 – 15.140 and can take from 2 hours to 5 working days. Construction permits are free of charge and are approved within 10 working days. City authorities help to eliminate barriers and administrative obstacles in every possible way. In particular, the licensing procedures have been simplified, the system of administrative services has been improved, and a transparent mechanism for the transfer of land (privatization) and communal property was introduced.

WhyKhmelnytskyi

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Quality of Life

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