Table 2: 1997 Economic Census: Ranking by Retail Sales
Idaho

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
 
Idaho 5,848 11,649,609   63,732 1,079,700 1,208,865 9,637
 
Ada County 1,264 3,163,201 1 16,663 300,937 267,283 11,835
Kootenai County 545 1,022,749 2 5,590 100,496 98,852 10,346
Canyon County 429 1,014,103 3 4,724 88,937 116,577 8,699
Bonneville County 480 933,394 4 5,615 90,091 80,044 11,661
Twin Falls County 378 837,930 5 4,721 76,766 61,531 13,618
Bannock County 343 705,711 6 4,177 65,119 74,018 9,534
Bonner County 200 573,773 7 2,325 41,547 34,736 16,518
Nez Perce County 231 464,310 8 2,832 48,711 36,844 12,602
Latah County 176 253,828 9 1,982 26,705 32,510 7,808
Bingham County 125 243,783 10 1,363 21,952 41,471 5,878
Shoshone County 76 243,495 11 687 12,848 13,948 17,457
Elmore County 84 231,015 12 894 17,285 24,659 9,368
Blaine County 189 226,860 13 1,372 26,288 17,163 13,218
Madison County 93 211,944 14 1,286 18,912 23,394 9,060
Cassia County 116 193,020 15 1,144 19,166 21,450 8,999
Minidoka County 76 130,444 16 775 12,071 20,536 6,352
Jerome County 57 107,640 17 624 10,271 17,550 6,133
Payette County 66 89,476 18 490 8,827 20,191 4,431
Idaho County 81 75,212 19 540 7,989 15,080 4,988
Gooding County 54 66,750 20 480 6,517 13,570 4,919
Valley County 65 66,226 21 436 6,729 8,080 8,196
Boundary County 54 61,555 22 373 6,111 9,833 6,260
Jefferson County 48 59,861 23 438 5,725 18,795 3,185
Washington County 40 58,710 24 341 5,481 10,035 5,851
Caribou County 42 57,787 25 301 4,454 7,298 7,918
Clearwater County 45 56,792 26 331 4,963 9,459 6,004
Franklin County 45 55,147 27 383 4,769 10,823 5,095
Lemhi County 54 54,450 28 384 5,131 8,067 6,750
Fremont County 50 52,966 29 285 4,202 11,753 4,507
Benewah County 41 50,172 30 313 4,898 8,998 5,576
Gem County 42 49,491 31 326 5,419 14,461 3,422
Bear Lake County 34 40,247 32 271 3,332 6,552 6,143
Power County 23 35,913 33 191 3,070 8,202 4,379
Teton County 37 34,729 34 217 3,033 5,290 6,565
Owyhee County 33 31,571 35 202 2,851 10,120 3,120
Lewis County 27 21,003 36 137 2,472 4,049 5,187
Custer County 25 14,719 37 106 1,228 4,238 3,473
Adams County 16 13,397 38 81 928 3,810 3,516
Lincoln County 12 11,221 39 57 722 3,796 2,956
Butte County 15 10,597 40 81 872 3,087 3,433
Oneida County 11 10,345 41 78 865 3,995 2,589
Boise County 18 6,609 42 65 529 5,038 1,312
Clark County 4 4,504 43 40 348 839 5,368
Camas County 4 2,959 44 11 133 840 3,523

These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 7/ 6/1999 For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.