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Oil change and quick-lube shops in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK
The oil change and quick-lube shops in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
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
- $5.5M
- On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $965 a household
- Spending per listing
- $5.5M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.7
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 13,549
- −2.6% since 2020
See the oil change and quick-lube shops around any address in Ketchikan Gateway Borough
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 Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in Ketchikan Gateway Borough comes to about $5.5M a year: $965 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That works out to $5.5M per shop. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only oil change and quick-lube shops.
There is 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings in Ketchikan Gateway Borough as of September 2026. That is 1.7 per 10,000 households.
Official counts don’t publish a figure for oil change and lubrication shops in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, since they leave out counts under 3.
Population estimates show Ketchikan Gateway Borough declined 2.6% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 oil change or quick-lube shop 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 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.
| Measure | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Spending per listing | $5.5M | $28.2M | $13.7M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 30,059 | 14,222 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | +12.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −2.6% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs | $965 | $1,043 | $958 |
| Median household income | $92,885 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 75 |
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
- 0The 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 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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Questions
How many oil change and quick-lube shops are in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK?
As of September 2026, map listings count 1 oil change or quick-lube shop in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. The listings count oil change and quick-lube shops. No official count is published for oil change and lubrication shops in Ketchikan Gateway Borough: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, AK spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?
About $5.5M a year, or $965 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 101, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings, it comes to $5.5M per shop. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which oil change and quick-lube shops 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 oil change and quick-lube shops?
Ketchikan Gateway Borough has 1 oil change or quick-lube shop on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate.
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 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 Ketchikan Gateway 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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