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Places/AK*/Ketchikan Gateway Borough
County profile

Ketchikan Gateway Borough

United States · GDP 2024
#1679 of 3,127 US counties by GDP62nd-percentile growthmore diversified than 79% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$1.2B
GDP growth
+5.4%
Jobs tracked
4,681
Employers
603
Avg. wage
$60.1k
Population
13,549
Labor & formation
Unemployment
3.1%
Median HH income
$92.9k±$5.7k
Business applications
201 · 2025

Public companies headquartered here

SEC EDGAR · FMP
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No public companies loaded for this state yet — universe expands with the full ingest.

HQ-based placement with total (global) headcount — local employment attribution needs firmographic data; the industry mix at right is measured county data (CBP).

Industry mix · employment
Health care26%
Retail trade23%
Food & accommodation20%
Transportation17%
Manufacturing7%
Construction7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
13,549
residents · 2025 · -2.6% since 2020
Income per capita $85.2k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−593
International migration+152
Natural change+76

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$1.0B
2019
$872.8M
2020
$951.4M
2021
$1.0B
2022
$1.2B
2023
$1.2B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$393.3k±$19.1k
Median gross rent
$1.5k/mo±$94/mo
Vacancy rate
14.4%±2.0%
Affordability
6.5× wages
Residential permits
63 (4.6/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
1.7
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$1.6k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 87Avalanche 80Volcanic 80
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
258
2016
258
2017
272
2018
292
2019
293
2020
311
2021
348
2022
365
2023
408
2024
382
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
895.3 km
I-5
Nearest freight rail
72.3 km
ARR
Nearest port
50.7 km
BACK ISLAND ANCHORAGE
Nearest commercial airport
55.3 km
KETCHIKAN INTL
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$60.1k
avg. annual pay · +23% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Beadle$1.2BCaddo$1.2BChambers$1.2BSan Juan$1.2BGreene$1.2BJuneau$1.2B
The read

Ketchikan Gateway Borough's economy produced $1.2B in 2024, growing 5.4% year over year — faster than most US counties. Its largest employment sector is health care.

GDP: BEA (2024), USD-normalized · Jobs/employers/wages & industry mix: Census CBP (2023) · Population & migration: Census PEP · Income: BEA CAINC1 · Companies: SEC EDGAR + FMP, by HQ.
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