# Counties in Alaska by employer firms, 2023

All 30 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employer_firms`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of firms in the private nonfarm sectors covered by the US Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics. Establishments under common ownership form one firm.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firms/alaska-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 6,409 |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 2,204 |
| 3 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 1,932 |
| 4 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 1,716 |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 852 |
| 6 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 472 |
| 7 | Kodiak Island Borough | 305 |
| 8 | Sitka City and Borough | 289 |
| 9 | Chugach Census Area | 219 |
| 10 | Bethel Census Area | 144 |
| 10 | Petersburg Borough | 144 |
| 12 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 124 |
| 13 | Nome Census Area | 122 |
| 14 | Aleutians West Census Area | 102 |
| 15 | North Slope Borough | 95 |
| 16 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 94 |
| 17 | Haines Borough | 92 |
| 18 | Copper River Census Area | 90 |
| 19 | Dillingham Census Area | 84 |
| 20 | Wrangell City and Borough | 71 |
| 21 | Bristol Bay Borough | 69 |
| 21 | Skagway Municipality | 69 |
| 23 | Denali Borough | 67 |
| 24 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 63 |
| 25 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 57 |
| 26 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 50 |
| 27 | Kusilvak Census Area | 44 |
| 28 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 43 |
| 29 | Aleutians East Borough | 34 |
| 30 | Yakutat City and Borough | 21 |