# Counties in Alaska by job destruction rate, 2023

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

- Indicator id: `job_destruction_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Jobs lost at closing and shrinking establishments during the year, as a percentage of average employment in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (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: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-destruction-rate/alaska-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 22.824 |
| 2 | Yakutat City and Borough | 21.488 |
| 3 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 21.201 |
| 4 | Nome Census Area | 20.173 |
| 5 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 18.26 |
| 6 | Haines Borough | 17.073 |
| 7 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 15.681 |
| 8 | Bristol Bay Borough | 15.331 |
| 9 | Skagway Municipality | 15.288 |
| 10 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 14.737 |
| 11 | Sitka City and Borough | 12.332 |
| 12 | Wrangell City and Borough | 12.33 |
| 13 | Chugach Census Area | 11.63 |
| 14 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 11.567 |
| 15 | Copper River Census Area | 11.346 |
| 16 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 10.876 |
| 17 | Anchorage Municipality | 10.751 |
| 18 | Petersburg Borough | 10.509 |
| 19 | Bethel Census Area | 10.008 |
| 20 | Juneau City and Borough | 9.957 |
| 21 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 9.711 |
| 22 | Kusilvak Census Area | 9.183 |
| 23 | Dillingham Census Area | 9.084 |
| 24 | Kodiak Island Borough | 7.49 |
| 25 | Denali Borough | 6.75 |
| 26 | North Slope Borough | 6.275 |
| 27 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 5.303 |
| 28 | Aleutians West Census Area | 5.229 |
| 29 | Aleutians East Borough | 4.086 |
| 30 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 1.906 |