owing to the favourable transport connections over an important north-south railway link and the autobahnen a 3 and a 45, and because it lies on the rhine-danube waterway and in the middle of the frankfurt rhine main region, the community offers many advantages as a location. kleinostheim benefits from lying near prosperous cities such as frankfurt, offenbach and aschaffenburg by serving as a commuter town. since the 1960s, the community's population has more than doubled from 4,000 to over 8,000.