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

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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 (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.