Table 2: 1997 Economic Census: Ranking by Retail Sales
North Dakota

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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 1,120,249 2,460,963,028   14,115,559 238,792,423 267,636,061 9,195
 
North Dakota 3,569 6,702,134   40,685 616,136 640,965 10,456
 
Cass County 572 1,669,196 1 9,697 161,309 114,997 14,515
Grand Forks County 351 934,695 2 5,596 81,374 69,325 13,483
Burleigh County 366 814,579 3 5,114 82,485 66,436 12,261
Ward County 339 753,712 4 4,819 74,268 59,033 12,768
Stark County 166 255,899 5 1,591 23,546 22,696 11,275
Stutsman County 137 207,804 6 1,419 19,408 21,067 9,864
Williams County 138 207,494 7 1,417 19,718 20,305 10,219
Morton County 101 196,038 8 944 18,424 24,407 8,032
Ramsey County 92 141,198 9 1,014 14,005 12,342 11,440
Richland County 91 137,868 10 797 11,864 18,175 7,586
Walsh County 91 116,122 11 706 10,168 13,698 8,477
Pembina County 77 102,957 12 620 8,354 8,635 11,923
Barnes County 76 81,128 13 602 7,422 12,070 6,721
Rolette County 49 79,650 14 486 6,465 14,133 5,636
Bottineau County 54 57,300 15 325 4,722 7,420 7,722
Mercer County 46 56,153 16 440 5,228 9,487 5,919
Traill County 47 49,208 17 314 4,375 8,628 5,703
Cavalier County 33 48,737 18 241 3,409 5,116 9,526
McLean County 46 47,035 19 343 3,926 9,761 4,819
Mountrail County 46 46,950 20 299 3,697 6,668 7,041
Dickey County 41 46,889 21 297 4,279 5,644 8,308
Bowman County 27 43,475 22 196 2,800 3,311 13,130
Pierce County 30 42,517 23 252 3,002 4,625 9,193
Wells County 42 41,435 24 238 3,403 5,230 7,923
Ransom County 39 39,445 25 275 3,343 5,822 6,775
Foster County 30 38,679 26 222 3,197 3,764 10,276
Emmons County 34 35,054 27 174 2,374 4,380 8,003
Adams County 21 34,265 28 169 2,704 2,771 12,366
Dunn County 19 29,292 29 110 1,641 3,630 8,069
McIntosh County 27 29,007 30 146 2,120 3,559 8,150
Renville County 14 27,656 31 105 1,875 2,845 9,721
Sargent County 28 25,493 32 161 2,049 4,431 5,753
McKenzie County 27 23,774 33 179 2,150 5,744 4,139
Griggs County 22 22,564 34 133 1,893 2,856 7,901
LaMoure County 22 18,686 35 105 1,626 4,890 3,821
Golden Valley County 17 17,661 36 88 1,170 1,903 9,281
Hettinger County 13 16,869 37 79 1,123 2,959 5,701
Nelson County 22 15,465 38 114 1,198 3,832 4,036
Benson County 18 14,727 39 76 689 6,853 2,149
Burke County 16 14,467 40 89 943 2,329 6,212
McHenry County 23 14,277 41 109 1,147 6,164 2,316
Grant County 15 14,003 42 77 1,068 3,037 4,611
Sioux County 11 13,990 43 60 677 4,109 3,405
Kidder County 11 13,886 44 62 630 2,923 4,751
Steele County 8 12,346 45 51 728 2,272 5,434
Logan County 12 11,790 46 52 755 2,402 4,908
Towner County 19 10,408 47 87 824 3,076 3,384
Eddy County 11 9,858 48 59 679 2,848 3,461
Divide County 15 9,003 49 70 1,037 2,430 3,705
Sheridan County 8 6,076 50 33 481 1,761 3,450
Oliver County 3 3,983 51 23 195 2,218 1,796
Billings County 6 1,371 52 10 169 1,102 1,244
Slope County 53 846 N/A

These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 02/18/2000 For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.