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Chiropractors in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK

How Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for chiropractors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 3.

Listings
3
3 chain locations (100%)
Official establishments
4
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$7.8M
On medical and dental services · $1,359 a household
Spending per listing
$2.6M
9% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
5.2
4% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
13,549
−2.6% since 2020

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Survey estimates 2020–2024 · population estimates 2025 · official business counts 2023 · map listings September 2026 · Data credits · How we measure

What this means

Map listings as of September 2026 show 3 chiropractors in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. That is 5.2 per 10,000 households, 4% below the U.S. rate of 5.4.

Households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough spend about $7.8M a year on medical and dental services, or $1,359 per household, 5% above the U.S. average. That is about $2.6M of household spending for each practice on map listings, 9% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which chiropractors share with other businesses in the trade.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of chiropractors in Ketchikan Gateway Borough was 4 in 2023. That is one for every 1,433 households, against one for every 3,237 across the U.S.

Population estimates show Ketchikan Gateway Borough declined 2.6% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 3 chiropractors on map listings, Ketchikan Gateway Borough isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

How Ketchikan Gateway Borough compares

The same measures for Alaska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the chiropractors counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Chiropractors in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK compared with Alaska and the U.S.
MeasureKetchikan Gateway BoroughAlaskaU.S.
Listings per 10k households5.27.35.4
Spending per listing$2.6M$1.9M$2.4M
Households per official establishment1,4331,8923,237
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−12.8%+0.8%
Population growth, 2020–2025−2.6%+0.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on medical and dental services$1,359$1,394$1,288
Median household income$92,885$92,788$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored27

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
4 → 4
Employees, 2023
11
Annual payroll, 2023
$493K
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
33 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
3The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
0
Amount
$0

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as offices of chiropractors in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.

Population and households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough

Population, 2025 estimate
13,549−2.6% since 2020
Households
5,732
Median age
40.9
Homes lived in by their owners
69%
Vehicles per household
1.7
Land area
4,857 sq. mi.
People per square mile
3
Median household income
$92,885+27.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$114,287
Median home value
$393,300
Jobs located here
n/a
Daytime population
n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Chiropractors across Alaska

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The highest-scoring counties in Alaska for chiropractors, numbered among those based in Alaska, with Ketchikan Gateway Borough marked.

Top counties in Alaska

Counties in Alaska ranked for chiropractors by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK64113.0$4.5M−1.4%#341 of 1,490
2Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK44338.3$1.7M+10.4%#914 of 1,490
3Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK35218.6$1.5M+5.1%#1,155 of 1,490
4Anchorage Municipality, AK34989.0$1.6M−1.3%#1,175 of 1,490
5Juneau City and Borough, AK30129.1$1.6M−1.8%#1,277 of 1,490
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AKNot scored35.2$2.6M−2.6%

Other business types in Ketchikan Gateway Borough

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many chiropractors are in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK?

There are 3 chiropractors on map listings in Ketchikan Gateway Borough as of September 2026. The listings count chiropractors. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as offices of chiropractors in 2023.

How much do households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK spend on medical and dental services?

About $7.8M a year, or $1,359 per household. That is 5% above the U.S. average (an index of 105, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 3 chiropractors on map listings, it comes to $2.6M per practice. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only chiropractors. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,732 households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough and national spending patterns by income.

How does Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK compare with the U.S. for chiropractors?

Ketchikan Gateway Borough has 5.2 chiropractors per 10,000 households, 4% below the U.S. rate of 5.4. Spending per practice is $2.6M, 9% above the U.S. figure of $2.4M. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of chiropractors to household spending. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,433 households, against one for every 3,237 across the U.S.

How fast is Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK growing?

Population estimates put Ketchikan Gateway Borough at 13,549 people in 2025, down 2.6% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 5,732 households. Median household income in Ketchikan Gateway Borough is $92,885, 15% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 27.7%, before inflation.

What is the Groundwork market score?

The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Ketchikan Gateway Borough has no market score for chiropractors: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 3.

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