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Alaska Business Applications by County

Explore annual Census business applications across Alaska. Bubble size shows application volume; color can show volume or year-over-year change.

Latest year: 2025 · 32 counties

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Where are business applications concentrated?

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County points use official Census internal coordinates. Values are protected estimates from the published annual BFS county file.

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Alaska counties ranked by 2025 business applications
Rank	County	Applications	vs. prior year	Share of state
1	Anchorage Municipality	5,174	+12.1%	48.6%
2	Matanuska-Susitna Borough	1,699	+19.6%	16.0%
3	Fairbanks North Star Borough	1,173	+33.9%	11.0%
4	Kenai Peninsula Borough	908	+13.9%	8.5%
5	Juneau City and Borough	399	+21.6%	3.7%
6	Ketchikan Gateway Borough	201	+19.6%	1.9%
7	Kodiak Island Borough	166	+38.3%	1.6%
8	Sitka City and Borough	130	+9.2%	1.2%
9	Valdez-Cordova Census Area	92	-3.2%	0.9%
10	Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	86	+24.6%	0.8%
11	Chugach Census Area	79	-15.1%	0.7%
12	Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area	54	-20.6%	0.5%
13	Nome Census Area	48	+108.7%	0.5%
14	Petersburg Borough	45	-6.3%	0.4%
15	Bethel Census Area	44	-12.0%	0.4%
16	Haines Borough	35	+45.8%	0.3%
17	North Slope Borough	35	+6.1%	0.3%
18	Copper River Census Area	34	+17.2%	0.3%
19	Skagway Municipality	32	0.0%	0.3%
20	Aleutians West Census Area	27	-20.6%	0.3%
21	Hoonah-Angoon Census Area	23	+35.3%	0.2%
22	Northwest Arctic Borough	21	+16.7%	0.2%
23	Wrangell City and Borough	19	-29.6%	0.2%
24	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	19	-20.8%	0.2%
25	Bristol Bay Borough	17	-37.0%	0.2%
26	Denali Borough	17	-5.6%	0.2%
27	Wade Hampton Census Area	17	+1,600.0%	0.2%
28	Kusilvak Census Area	14	+75.0%	0.1%
29	Aleutians East Borough	13	+8.3%	0.1%
30	Lake and Peninsula Borough	10	+25.0%	0.1%
31	Yakutat City and Borough	10	+900.0%	0.1%
32	Dillingham Census Area	0	-100.0%	0.0%