# Counties in Alaska by employer firm births, 2020

All 28 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2020, so the places are comparable. 2 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `employer_firm_births`
- Unit: count
- Definition: 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.
- Source: 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-22
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firm-births/alaska-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 376 |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 181 |
| 3 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 130 |
| 4 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 119 |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 53 |
| 6 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 24 |
| 7 | Sitka City and Borough | 19 |
| 8 | Kodiak Island Borough | 17 |
| 9 | Wrangell City and Borough | 10 |
| 10 | Bethel Census Area | 9 |
| 10 | Denali Borough | 9 |
| 10 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 9 |
| 13 | Chugach Census Area | 8 |
| 13 | Nome Census Area | 8 |
| 15 | Bristol Bay Borough | 6 |
| 15 | Haines Borough | 6 |
| 17 | Dillingham Census Area | 5 |
| 17 | Petersburg Borough | 5 |
| 19 | Copper River Census Area | 4 |
| 19 | North Slope Borough | 4 |
| 19 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 4 |
| 22 | Aleutians East Borough | 3 |
| 22 | Aleutians West Census Area | 3 |
| 22 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 3 |
| 22 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 3 |
| 26 | Kusilvak Census Area | 0 |
| 26 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 0 |
| 26 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 0 |