Rack market

Cincinnati, OH

#76 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 300 Gasoline & diesel Biodiesel

terminals: 4
pipeline systems delivering: 1
refineries confirmed: 0
more per research or by route: 1
people in the trade area: 1,045,519
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 1,215,309
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 434,399

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Aircraft Service International, Incorporated	T-61-KY-3277	Erlanger, KY	no pipeline tariff on file
Buckeye Terminals, LLC - Cincinnati Terminal	T-31-OH-3128	Cincinnati, OH	Inland Waterways
Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC - Cincinnati North Terminal	T-31-OH-3104	Cincinnati, OH	Inland Waterways
Mplx Cincinnati	T-31-OH-3100	Cincinnati, OH	Inland Waterways

Pipelines delivering to this market

Each system with a tariff delivery point at one of this market’s terminals, and how many running refineries can ship on it to here.

Pipeline system	Terminals here	Delivery points	Refineries confirmed	All reachable
Inland Waterways	3	3	0	1

Refineries that can supply this market

Refinery	Location	Via	Link
Marathon Catlettsburg Refinery	Catlettsburg, KY	Inland Waterways	per research

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 1,045,519
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #107
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 1,215,309
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 434,399
counties wholly in this market: 0
counties shared with other markets: 30

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
Hamilton County	OH	54%	454,758	515,867	149,151	838,418	7
Butler County	OH	24%	95,991	82,182	19,058	400,128	24
Clermont County	OH	42%	91,109	85,501	23,656	216,977	24
Boone County	KY	60%	87,408	128,498	52,623	145,316	12
Kenton County	KY	49%	85,921	101,673	37,418	175,779	12
Campbell County	KY	42%	40,534	46,085	14,788	95,441	16
Dearborn County	IN	59%	30,506	39,409	23,026	51,609	21
Warren County	OH	9%	24,175	28,846	9,839	257,181	32
Brown County	OH	36%	15,978	17,312	8,436	44,397	41
Ripley County	IN	45%	13,101	17,033	8,931	29,434	36
Grant County	KY	45%	11,774	26,253	20,325	26,181	31
Franklin County	IN	44%	10,283	10,540	5,250	23,286	33
Decatur County	IN	36%	9,485	14,156	9,136	26,576	50
Fayette County	IN	32%	7,524	6,026	1,594	23,533	49
Clinton County	OH	16%	6,709	10,800	7,440	42,301	48
Pendleton County	KY	45%	6,659	5,221	1,715	14,800	31
Jefferson County	IN	19%	6,410	6,509	1,919	33,279	50
Preble County	OH	14%	5,644	8,466	5,846	40,664	44
Switzerland County	IN	53%	5,333	5,280	2,045	10,037	30
Mason County	KY	31%	5,294	7,377	2,133	16,936	54
Harrison County	KY	27%	5,268	4,471	1,398	19,627	47
Gallatin County	KY	52%	4,575	16,446	12,261	8,840	28
Carroll County	KY	32%	3,619	10,729	7,071	11,141	41
Ohio County	IN	58%	3,462	2,754	980	5,994	23
Henry County	KY	20%	3,210	6,467	4,405	16,447	53
Bracken County	KY	38%	3,198	4,025	1,322	8,511	39
Owen County	KY	27%	3,138	2,842	916	11,601	44
Union County	IN	30%	2,055	2,274	866	6,863	40
Trimble County	KY	19%	1,646	1,713	690	8,701	52
Robertson County	KY	31%	724	525	155	2,325	50

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

No published pipeline rate into a terminal here is on file yet. Markets supplied by truck, rail or water have no tariff to read.

Supply resilience

pipeline supply: One pipeline
pipeline systems delivering: 1
terminals on two or more pipelines: 0
terminals with no pipeline tariff: 1

One pipeline system delivers here: Inland Waterways. An outage on it leaves the market to truck, rail or water.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system	Terminals it reaches here	With no other pipeline	Which
Inland Waterways	3	3	Buckeye Terminals, LLC - Cincinnati Terminal; Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC - Cincinnati North Terminal; Mplx Cincinnati

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Delivered ethanol cost

¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · lowest in the market: +4.93
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest: +5.31

An estimate for each terminal: the cheapest of published rail rates and trucking from the nearest plants, plus basis, transload, terminaling and carrying cost. Each terminal page shows the build-up line by line.

Terminal	¢/gal over Chicago	By	From	Miles
Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC - Cincinnati North Terminal	+4.93	truck	The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC (Greenville, OH)	76
Aircraft Service International, Incorporated	+5.24	truck	Lincolnland Agri-Energy LLC (Palestine, IL)	192
Buckeye Terminals, LLC - Cincinnati Terminal	+5.25	truck	The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC (Greenville, OH)	82
Mplx Cincinnati	+5.31	truck	The Andersons Marathon Holdings LLC (Greenville, OH)	83

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market	Miles	Terminals	Pipelines
Covington, KY	4	2	1
Lebanon, OH	30	2	—
Dayton, OH	53	4	2
Seymour, IN	67	1	1
Lexington, KY	72	2	—
Greenville, OH	73	1	2

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$3.829 Regular gasoline · Ohio · -10.2% on the week · +34.1% on the year

$6.286 Diesel · PADD 2 · -3.7% on the week · +68.5% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-05: the closest area EIA reports, not this market alone.

Terminal operators

4 operators; the largest, Aircraft Service International, runs 25% of the terminals.

Aircraft Service International 1 terminal · 25%
Buckeye 1 terminal · 25%
Kinder Morgan 1 terminal · 25%
Marathon / MPLX 1 terminal · 25%

Concentration index 2,500 (10,000 = one operator). By terminal count as named on the IRS list, not volume; affiliates under other names may be counted apart.

In the state

16 rack markets in OH.

Source

Rack market list and codes from OPIS; terminals from the IRS Terminal Control Number list; pipeline reach from published FERC and state tariffs; refinery links from tariffs and sourced research. Rack prices and suppliers posting at each terminal are not shown yet.

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.