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Oil change and quick-lube shops in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK

How Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for oil change and quick-lube shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score

Not scored

The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.

Listings
1
0 chain locations (0%)
Official establishments
n/a
Fewer than 3, or not published
Household spending a year
$27.9M
On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $1,146 a household
Spending per listing
$27.9M
Too few listings to compare
Listings per 10k households
0.4
Too few listings to compare
Population, 2025
61,951
+5.1% since 2020

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The site report maps the oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Kenai Peninsula Borough. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.

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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 1 oil change or quick-lube shop in Kenai Peninsula Borough. That is 0.4 per 10,000 households.

Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in Kenai Peninsula Borough comes to about $27.9M a year: $1,146 per household, 20% above the U.S. average. That is about $27.9M of household spending for each shop on map listings. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which oil change and quick-lube shops share with other businesses in the trade.

There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as oil change and lubrication shops in Kenai Peninsula Borough: counts under 3 aren’t published.

Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Kenai Peninsula Borough grew 5.1%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings, Kenai Peninsula Borough isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.

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 vehicle maintenance and repairs by the oil change and quick-lube shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Oil change and quick lube in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK compared with Alaska and the U.S.
MeasureKenai Peninsula BoroughAlaskaU.S.
Listings per 10k households0.40.40.7
Spending per listing$27.9M$28.2M$13.7M
Households per official establishmentn/a30,05914,222
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/an/a+12.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025+5.1%+0.6%+3.1%
Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs$1,146$1,043$958
Median household income$80,538$92,788$80,734
Groundwork market scoreNot scored75

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
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
10 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
2The 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 oil change and lubrication shops 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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Other business types in Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Questions

How many oil change and quick-lube shops are in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK?

Kenai Peninsula Borough has 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count oil change and quick-lube shops. No official count is published for oil change and lubrication shops in Kenai Peninsula Borough: counts under 3 are left out.

How much do households in Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?

About $27.9M a year, or $1,146 per household. That is 20% above the U.S. average (an index of 120, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings, it comes to $27.9M per shop. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only oil change and quick-lube shops. 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 oil change and quick-lube shops?

Kenai Peninsula Borough has 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of oil change and quick-lube shops to household spending, Kenai Peninsula Borough would have about 2, against 1 on map listings.

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 has no market score for oil change and quick-lube shops: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.

How can I see the market around a specific site?

Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Kenai Peninsula Borough. It maps the oil change and quick-lube shops on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.

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