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Nail salons in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK
How Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for nail salons: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $6.1M
- On personal care products and services · $1,068 a household
- Spending per listing
- $3.1M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 13,549
- −2.6% since 2020
See the nail salons around any address in Ketchikan Gateway Borough
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What this means
At $1,068 per household (6% above the U.S. average), households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough spend about $6.1M a year on personal care products and services. Spread across 2 nail salons, that is $3.1M per salon. The spending figure covers all personal care products and services, not only nail salons.
There are 2 nail salons on map listings in Ketchikan Gateway Borough as of September 2026. That is 3.5 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for nail salons in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, since they leave out counts under 3. Official counts list 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates put the population change in Ketchikan Gateway Borough from 2020 to 2025 at −2.6%, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 2 nail salons 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 personal care products and services by the nail salons counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.5 | 4.2 | 6.0 |
| Spending per listing | $3.1M | $2.6M | $1.7M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 4,435 | 3,754 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +74.3% | +23.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.6% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on personal care products and services | $1,068 | $1,095 | $1,005 |
| Median household income | $92,885 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 62 |
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
- 3Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 20 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 nail salons 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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Top counties in Alaska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 81 | 13 | 3.3 | $3.3M | +10.4% | #38 of 1,328 |
| 2Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 80 | 9 | 3.7 | $2.8M | +5.1% | #49 of 1,328 |
| 3Juneau City and Borough, AK | 53 | 6 | 4.6 | $2.5M | −1.8% | #583 of 1,328 |
| 4Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK | 53 | 17 | 4.7 | $2.3M | −1.4% | #588 of 1,328 |
| 5Anchorage Municipality, AK | 50 | 62 | 5.7 | $2M | −1.3% | #699 of 1,328 |
| Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK | Not scored | 2 | 3.5 | $3.1M | −2.6% |
Other business types in Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Clothing and laundry
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Questions
How many nail salons are in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 2 nail salons in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. The listings count nail salons. No official count is published for nail salons in Ketchikan Gateway Borough: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts also show 3 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK spend on personal care products and services?
About $6.1M a year, or $1,068 per household. That is 6% above the U.S. average (an index of 106, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 nail salons on map listings, it comes to $3.1M per salon. That spending covers all personal care products and services, which nail salons share with other businesses in the trade. 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 nail salons?
Ketchikan Gateway Borough has 2 nail salons on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the U.S. ratio of nail salons to household spending, Ketchikan Gateway Borough would have about 4, against 2 on map listings.
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 nail salons: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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