Highland Heights is a home rule-class city[4] in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States.

Highland Heights is home to Northern Kentucky University and General Cable, a Fortune 500 company[5] whose present headquarters were constructed in 1992.

The local post office was established in 1927, and the community of Highland Heights incorporated itself separately the same year.

[6][7] 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.

Interstate 275, the beltway around Cincinnati, runs along the western and northern edges of Highland Heights.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), all land.