# Counties in Alaska by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 30 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `establishments_qcew`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Average number of establishments with jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. An establishment is a single place of business, such as a factory, store or office; a company with several locations has several.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-establishments/alaska-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 8,763 |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 2,892 |
| 3 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 2,472 |
| 4 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 2,406 |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 1,170 |
| 6 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 630 |
| 7 | Kodiak Island Borough | 480 |
| 8 | Sitka City and Borough | 415 |
| 9 | Chugach Census Area | 399 |
| 10 | Bethel Census Area | 302 |
| 11 | Nome Census Area | 292 |
| 12 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 252 |
| 13 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 244 |
| 14 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 240 |
| 15 | North Slope Borough | 228 |
| 16 | Petersburg Borough | 175 |
| 17 | Haines Borough | 166 |
| 18 | Aleutians West Census Area | 155 |
| 19 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 152 |
| 20 | Dillingham Census Area | 151 |
| 21 | Denali Borough | 148 |
| 22 | Copper River Census Area | 146 |
| 23 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 140 |
| 24 | Kusilvak Census Area | 124 |
| 25 | Bristol Bay Borough | 114 |
| 26 | Skagway Municipality | 110 |
| 27 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 109 |
| 28 | Wrangell City and Borough | 99 |
| 29 | Aleutians East Borough | 90 |
| 30 | Yakutat City and Borough | 43 |