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Clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

How Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 56 out of 100: Upper middle

Ranked #881 of 2,210 scored counties
#3 of 6 scored counties in Alaska

Listings
46
6 chain locations (13%)
Official establishments
13
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$44.5M
On clothing, shoes and related services · $1,828 a household
Spending per listing
$968K
10% above the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
18.9
19% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
61,951
+5.1% 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

Household spending on clothing, shoes and related services in Kenai Peninsula Borough comes to about $44.5M a year: $1,828 per household, 11% below the U.S. average. Spread across 46 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses, that is $968K per business, 10% above the U.S. figure of $880K.

Kenai Peninsula Borough has 46 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses on map listings as of September 2026. 6 of them (13%) are chain locations, against 37% across the U.S. That is 18.9 per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 23.3.

The official count of businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in Kenai Peninsula Borough was 13 in 2023. That is one for every 1,875 households, against one for every 1,008 across the U.S. Official counts list 34 one-person businesses without payroll.

Population estimates show Kenai Peninsula Borough grew 5.1% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Kenai Peninsula Borough scores 56 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses, ranking #881 of 2,210 scored counties and #3 of 6 scored counties in Alaska.

How Kenai Peninsula Borough compares

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

Clothing, shoes and laundry in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK compared with Alaska and the U.S.
MeasureKenai Peninsula BoroughAlaskaU.S.
Listings per 10k households18.919.423.3
Spending per listing$968K$1M$880K
Households per official establishment1,8751,2351,008
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−2.2%−12.0%
Population growth, 2020–2025+5.1%+0.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on clothing, shoes and related services$1,828$1,958$2,055
Median household income$80,538$92,788$80,734
Groundwork market score5653

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
11 → 13
Employees, 2023
44
Annual payroll, 2023
$1.1M
One-person businesses, 2023
34Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
466 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
51The 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 clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in Kenai Peninsula 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 Kenai Peninsula Borough

Population, 2025 estimate
61,951+5.1% since 2020
Households
24,371
Median age
42.1
Homes lived in by their owners
77%
Vehicles per household
2.1
Land area
16,017 sq. mi.
People per square mile
4
Median household income
$80,538+21.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
Average household income
$105,973
Median home value
$323,200
Jobs located here
n/a
Daytime population
n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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The highest-scoring counties in Alaska for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses, numbered among those based in Alaska, with Kenai Peninsula Borough marked.

Top counties in Alaska

Counties in Alaska ranked for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK814812.0$1.6M+10.4%#124 of 2,210
2Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK574412.1$1.6M−1.4%#798 of 2,210
3Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK564618.9$968K+5.1%#881 of 2,210
4Anchorage Municipality, AK3825823.8$874K−1.3%#1,587 of 2,210
5Juneau City and Borough, AK354937.2$546K−1.8%#1,716 of 2,210
6Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK193459.3$320K−2.6%#2,101 of 2,210

Other business types in Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

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Questions

How many clothing, shoe and laundry businesses are in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 46 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses in Kenai Peninsula Borough. 6 of them (13%) are chain locations. The listings count clothing, shoe and jewelry stores, laundromats and dry cleaners. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as clothing and shoe stores, laundromats and dry cleaners in 2023. Official counts also show 34 one-person businesses without payroll.

How much do households in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK spend on clothing, shoes and related services?

About $44.5M a year, or $1,828 per household. That is 11% below the U.S. average (an index of 89, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 46 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses on map listings, it comes to $968K per business. It is estimated from the incomes of the 24,371 households in Kenai Peninsula Borough and national spending patterns by income.

How does Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK compare with the U.S. for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses?

Kenai Peninsula Borough has 18.9 clothing, shoe and laundry businesses per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 23.3. Spending per business is $968K, 10% above the U.S. figure of $880K. At the U.S. ratio of clothing, shoe and laundry businesses to household spending, Kenai Peninsula Borough would have about 51, against 46 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,875 households, against one for every 1,008 across the U.S.

How fast is Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK growing?

Population estimates put Kenai Peninsula Borough at 61,951 people in 2025, up 5.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 24,371 households. The median household income in Kenai Peninsula Borough is $80,538 a year, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 21.9% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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. Kenai Peninsula Borough scores 56 for clothing, shoe and laundry businesses (upper middle), #881 of 2,210 scored counties.

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