Retail_Trade_____ | Number of establish- ments | Retail sales | Number of employees | Payroll ($1,000) | Popu- lation | Retail sales per capita ($) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
($1,000) | rank | ||||||
United States (preliminary) | 1,120,249 | 2,456,574,247 |   | 14,115,559 | 238,792,423 | 267,636,061 | 9,179 |
Alaska | 2,866 | 6,251,372 |   | 32,502 | 670,465 | 609,655 | 10,254 |
Anchorage Borough | 1,001 | 3,114,874 | 1 | 15,115 | 319,285 | 251,145 | 12,403 |
Fairbanks North Star Borough | 359 | 927,860 | 2 | 4,431 | 99,497 | 84,451 | 10,987 |
Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 201 | 477,250 | 3 | 2,149 | 46,550 | 54,519 | 8,754 |
Kenai Peninsula Borough | 292 | 426,515 | 4 | 2,219 | 45,063 | 47,356 | 9,007 |
Juneau Borough | 173 | 312,748 | 5 | 1,807 | 37,191 | 30,200 | 10,356 |
Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 119 | 205,121 | 6 | 1,164 | 28,609 | 13,849 | 14,811 |
Kodiak Island Borough | 67 | 102,885 | 7 | 590 | 11,852 | 14,818 | 6,943 |
Valdez-Cordova Census Area | 78 | 81,716 | 8 | 417 | 8,234 | 10,430 | 7,835 |
Sitka Borough | 75 | 78,156 | 9 | 534 | 10,337 | 8,481 | 9,215 |
Bethel Census Area | 59 | 77,217 | 10 | 829 | 8,537 | 15,763 | 4,899 |
Nome Census Area | 41 | 56,956 | 11 | 442 | 5,790 | 8,933 | 6,376 |
Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area | 61 | 54,082 | 12 | 406 | 8,219 | 6,942 | 7,791 |
North Slope Borough | 22 | 45,029 | 13 | 293 | 7,365 | 7,224 | 6,233 |
Aleutians West Census Area | 20 | 41,180 | 14 | 197 | 4,227 | 4,626 | 8,902 |
Northwest Arctic Borough | 30 | 40,849 | 15 | 286 | 5,392 | 6,661 | 6,133 |
Dillingham Census Area | 16 | 33,056 | 16 | 220 | 3,599 | 4,459 | 7,413 |
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 30 | 28,383 | 17 | 193 | 2,884 | 5,614 | 5,056 |
Wade Hampton Census Area | 29 | 27,284 | 18 | 353 | 3,059 | 6,775 | 4,027 |
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Censu | 40 | 25,962 | 19 | 158 | 2,675 | 7,147 | 3,633 |
Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Borough | 45 | 25,291 | 20 | 208 | 3,213 | 3,862 | 6,549 |
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 40 | 22,318 | 21 | 147 | 2,136 | 5,983 | 3,730 |
Haines Borough | 26 | 13,063 | 22 | 98 | 2,041 | 2,202 | 5,932 |
Bristol Bay Borough | 13 | 12,778 | 23 | 91 | 2,065 | 1,351 | 9,458 |
Aleutians East Borough | 6 | 7,161 | 24 | 56 | 1,037 | 2,308 | 3,103 |
Yakutat Borough | 6 | 5,343 | 25 | 30 | 808 | 830 | 6,437 |
Denali Borough | 7 | D |   | (20-99) | D | 2,003 | N/A |
Lake and Peninsula Borough | 10 | D |   | (20-99) | D | 1,723 | N/A |
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure of confidential information.
These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 10/20/1999
For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.