Kenai Peninsula Borough
144 North Binkley Street     Soldotna, AK 99669
Phone - (907) 262-4441 or (800) 478-4441   or on the web    www.borough.kenai.ak.us

 Kenai Peninsula Borough - The Bigger Picture
Demographics  Census Data, Area Density -2000       Population by Age Group  - 1990 to 2000     
Labor Force - 2005   2006           
Earnings -  2006 by LOB   2003-2006 Total Earnings        
County Business Patterns   Kenai Peninsula Borough     Anchorage Municipality   Fairbanks Northstar Borough 
Juneau Borough      Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Federal Funds        Municipal Taxation         School Revenue         State Taxes   
Three different sets of employment statistics are presented on the AK DOL&WD website:  1) Current Employment Statistics (CES); 2) Employment and Earnings (E&E); and 3) civilian employment calculated as part of the program that generates unemployment rates. 
The CES and E&E data sets both count the number of jobs by place of work.  Neither includes business owners, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, or private household workers.  If someone holds more than one job, they may be counted more than once.  CES employment data are released monthly for the state as a whole and for the state’s six economic regions.  E&E employment data are released quarterly (with a time lag of six to nine months) for the state as a whole and for all of the state’s boroughs and census areas.  
CES data are considered the state and nation’s official industry employment time series.  E&E data are primarily used when more geographic detail is needed and for earnings data.
Unlike the two industry employment data sets, civilian employment estimates generated in the calculation of unemployment rates count the number of working people by where they live.  This includes business owners, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, private household workers, and wage and salary workers.  A person with more than one job is only counted once.  
2006 Annual Average Labor Statistics in Alaska by Borough
  Labor Force Employment Unemployment Unemployment Rate Rank by Unemployment Rate
Aleutians East Borough 1,133 1,033 100 8.8% 16
Aleutians West Borough 3,180 2,993 187 5.9% 7
Anchorage Municipality 150,905 142,853 8,052 5.3% 2
Bethel Census Area 6,980 6,054 926 13.3% 25
Bristol Bay Borough 1,022 966 56 5.5% 4
Denali Borough 1,706 1,609 97 5.7% 5
Dillingham Census Area 2,113 1,912 201 9.5% 17
Fairbanks Northstar Borough 44,914 42,303 2,611 5.8% 6
Haines Borough 1,459 1,338 119 8.2% 13
Juneau Borough 18,446 17,536 910 4.9% 1
Kenai Peninsula Borough 25,418 23,317 2,101 8.3% 14
Ketchikan Gateway Borough 8,071 7,571 500 6.2% 9
Kodiak Island Borough 6,062 5,597 465 7.7% 12
Lake and Peninsula Borough 1,073 1,007 66 6.2% 8
Matanuska-Susitna Borough 37,302 34,413 2,889 7.7% 11
Nome Census Area 3,910 3,435 475 12.1% 22
North Slope Borough 4,124 3,835 289 7.0% 10
Northwest Arctic Borough 2,967 2,629 338 11.4% 21
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area 2,342 2,003 339 14.5% 26
Sitka Borough 4,705 4,449 256 5.4% 3
Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area 1,872 1,628 244 13.0% 23
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area 3,278 2,918 360 11.0% 20
Valdez-Cordova Census Area 5,189 4,742 447 8.6% 15
Wade Hampton Census Area 2,554 2,026 528 20.7% 27
Wrangell-Peterson Census Area 2,913 2,631 282 9.7% 18
Yakatat Borough 311 280 31 10.0% 19
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area 2,825 2,454 371 13.1% 24
Alaska Total 346,769 323,531 23,238 6.7%  
Like the KPB, the Alaska economy is a seasonal economy, although fluctuations in the statewide unemployment rate are less dramatic. The 2005 statewide low occurred during August, with an unemployment rate of 5.8% while the January annual high was 8.0%. The KPB ranged from a low of 6.4% during July to a high of 10.9% during January.
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