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Grocery and convenience stores in Denali Borough, AK

How Denali Borough, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

Listings
2
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$3.5M
On groceries · $6,122 a household
Spending per listing
$1.7M
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
35.4
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
1,616
+0.3% 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

As of September 2026, map listings count 2 grocery and convenience stores in Denali Borough. That is 35.4 per 10,000 households.

Households in Denali Borough spend about $3.5M a year on groceries, or $6,122 per household, 3% below the U.S. average. That is about $1.7M of household spending for each store on map listings.

There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Denali Borough: counts under 3 aren’t published.

Population estimates put the population change in Denali Borough from 2020 to 2025 at +0.3%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

How Denali Borough compares

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

Grocery and convenience stores in Denali Borough, AK compared with Alaska and the U.S.
MeasureDenali BoroughAlaskaU.S.
Listings per 10k households35.421.018.7
Spending per listing$1.7M$3M$3.4M
Households per official establishmentn/a1,1041,293
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a−3.2%+7.2%
Population growth, 2020–2025+0.3%+0.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on groceries$6,122$6,384$6,319
Median household income$80,781$92,788$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored35

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
n/a
Employees, 2023
n/a
Annual payroll, 2023
n/a
One-person businesses, 2023
0Businesses with no payroll
Map listings, September 2026
20 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
1The 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 grocery and convenience stores in Denali 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 Denali Borough

Population, 2025 estimate
1,616+0.3% since 2020
Households
565
Median age
43.5
Homes lived in by their owners
65%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
12,641 sq. mi.
People per square mile
0
Median household income
$80,781
Average household income
$100,935
Median home value
$275,000
Jobs located here
n/a
Daytime population
n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Grocery and convenience stores across Alaska

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The highest-scoring counties in Alaska for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in Alaska, with Denali Borough marked.

Top counties in Alaska

Counties in Alaska ranked for grocery and convenience stores by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
1Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK924912.3$5.2M+10.4%#32 of 2,402
2Anchorage Municipality, AK7915414.2$4.7M−1.3%#199 of 2,402
3Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK755515.1$4.2M−1.4%#293 of 2,402
4Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK481627.9$2.3M−2.6%#1,300 of 2,402
5Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK457330.0$2M+5.1%#1,411 of 2,402
6Juneau City and Borough, AK443526.6$2.5M−1.8%#1,439 of 2,402
7Bethel Census Area, AK231531.1$1.9M−1.5%#2,149 of 2,402
8Kodiak Island Borough, AK211736.6$1.7M−5.0%#2,203 of 2,402
9North Slope Borough, AK201148.2$1.4M−3.8%#2,223 of 2,402
Denali Borough, AKNot scored235.4$1.7M+0.3%

Other business types in Denali Borough

None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.

Questions

How many grocery and convenience stores are in Denali Borough, AK?

Denali Borough has 2 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. No official count is published for grocery and convenience stores in Denali Borough: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in Denali Borough, AK spend on groceries?

About $3.5M a year, or $6,122 per household. That is 3% below the U.S. average (an index of 97, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.7M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 565 households in Denali Borough and national spending patterns by income.

How does Denali Borough, AK compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?

Denali Borough has 2 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Denali Borough would have about 1, against 2 on map listings.

How fast is Denali Borough, AK growing?

Population estimates put Denali Borough at 1,616 people in 2025, up 0.3% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 565 households. Median household income in Denali Borough is $80,781, in line with the U.S. median of $80,734.

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. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.

How can I see the market around a specific site?

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