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Alaska: county data, all 30 of them.

Every Alaska county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the Alaska statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
30
Population
735,706
Land area
570,690 sq mi
Establishments
21,992
Combined county GDP
$71.57 bn
SBA approvals recorded
996

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the Alaska legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for Alaska, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write Alaska zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 30 Alaska county-equivalents.

Alaska counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Aleutians East Borough3,491$65,36562$288.9 mNone recorded6,982
Aleutians West Census Area5,235$135,500119$1.35 bn84,390
Anchorage Municipality288,976$103,2848,799$32.11 bn4491,705
Bethel Census Area18,394$73,996215$837.1 m640,570
Bristol Bay Borough918$95,625114$178.8 m5504
Chugach Census Area6,862$90,509379$1.47 bn119,574
Copper River Census Area2,626$79,250104$168.9 m324,646
Denali Borough1,969$80,781106$413.1 m212,751
Dillingham Census Area4,724$78,533121$324.1 m318,569
Fairbanks North Star Borough95,460$88,2672,576$7.89 bn1037,338
Haines Borough2,086$86,927137$149.7 m12,319
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area2,311$61,40698$144.2 m17,525
Juneau City and Borough31,794$101,6611,100$3.23 bn492,702
Kenai Peninsula Borough60,413$80,5382,405$3.59 bn10316,075
Ketchikan Gateway Borough13,768$92,885603$1.24 bn144,858
Kodiak Island Borough12,771$86,250450$989.1 m206,550
Kusilvak Census Area8,176$51,47171$181.1 mNone recorded17,151
Lake and Peninsula Borough1,013$65,62557$141.7 m223,652
Matanuska-Susitna Borough112,988$94,0312,822$4.47 bn15324,608
Nome Census Area9,866$78,681174$603.2 m222,962
North Slope Borough10,810$95,694145$8.09 bn488,695
Northwest Arctic Borough7,441$84,01865$743.5 m335,573
Petersburg Borough3,409$75,125188$216.5 m113,282
Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area5,715$61,156175$294.0 m53,923
Sitka City and Borough8,368$101,727405$734.7 m172,870
Skagway Municipality1,244$81,136112$128.3 m8452
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area7,068$73,882172$1.05 bn624,769
Wrangell City and Borough2,088$63,75097$118.5 m32,541
Yakutat City and Borough527$85,00029$42.4 m17,649
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area5,195$55,74192$383.7 m3145,505

The register

Every source behind these 30 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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