Counties in Alaska by employer firm births, 2020
Anchorage Municipality had the highest employer firm births of 28 counties in 2020, at 376. Northwest Arctic Borough had the lowest, at 0. The median was 7 and the figure for Alaska was 1,018. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
Map of counties, 2020
- Under 3
- 3 to 5
- 5 to 9
- 9 to 22
- 22 and over
- No data
All counties, 2020
Full ranking
| Rank | Counties | 2020 | Change on 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 376 | -1.1% |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 181 | +7.1% |
| 3 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 130 | +8.3% |
| 4 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 119 | +21.4% |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 53 | +32.5% |
| 6 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 24 | -11.1% |
| 7 | Sitka City and Borough | 19 | +111.1% |
| 8 | Kodiak Island Borough | 17 | +6.3% |
| 9 | Wrangell City and Borough | 10 | +100% |
| 10 | Bethel Census Area | 9 | +200% |
| 10 | Denali Borough | 9 | +50% |
| 10 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 9 | +80% |
| 13 | Chugach Census Area | 8 | -52.9% |
| 13 | Nome Census Area | 8 | +60% |
| 15 | Bristol Bay Borough | 6 | +50% |
| 15 | Haines Borough | 6 | -40% |
| 17 | Dillingham Census Area | 5 | +66.7% |
| 17 | Petersburg Borough | 5 | -44.4% |
| 19 | Copper River Census Area | 4 | -20% |
| 19 | North Slope Borough | 4 | -20% |
| 19 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 4 | 0% |
| 22 | Aleutians East Borough | 3 | |
| 22 | Aleutians West Census Area | 3 | 0% |
| 22 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 3 | -25% |
| 22 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 3 | |
| 26 | Kusilvak Census Area | 0 | |
| 26 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 0 | |
| 26 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 0 |
Other periods
About this ranking
New employer firms: firms of age zero in March of the year, meaning that every establishment of the firm had its first employees during the previous twelve months. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics, which calls these firms startups.
A firm counts only when it has employees, so a business without staff is not a birth, and a new branch, merger or change of ownership of an existing firm is not a birth either. Not the same as business_applications (requests for an employer number) or enterprise_births (European business demography). The year is the twelve months to March: 2023 compares March 2022 with March 2023.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 2 counties with data in other periods have no value for 2020 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-22.Citation styles
APA 7
U.S. Census Bureau. (2025). Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978 (Counties in Alaska by employer firm births, 2020) [Data set]. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv
MLA 9
Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978, Counties in Alaska by employer firm births, 2020. U.S. Census Bureau, 25 Sept. 2025, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firm-births/alaska-counties. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
U.S. Census Bureau. 2025. Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978. Counties in Alaska by employer firm births, 2020. Dataset. Accessed October 22, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firm-births/alaska-counties.
Harvard
U.S. Census Bureau (2025) Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978, Counties in Alaska by employer firm births, 2020 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firm-births/alaska-counties (Accessed: 22 October 2026).
BibTeX
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Which county has the highest employer firm births?
Anchorage Municipality, with 376 in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Which county has the lowest employer firm births?
Northwest Arctic Borough, with 0 in 2020.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978. Retrieved 2026-10-22. 2 counties have no value for 2020 and are not ranked.