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Ketchikan city, Alaska: commercial real estate data.
Ketchikan city is a Census city of 8,078 people across 3.83 square miles of land, in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Median household income is $85,275, 61.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 10 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.7 m.
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Ketchikan
What Ketchikan is
- Census place typecity
- Land area3.83 sq mi
- Water area1.07 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land2,109
- County holding the largest share of its areaKetchikan Gateway Borough, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ketchikan
How many people live in Ketchikan
- Population8,078
- Median age37.4
- Population under 181,674
- Share under 1820.7 percent
- Population 65 and over1,226
- Share 65 and over15.2 percent
- Households3,415
- Family households1,865
- Share of households that are families54.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ketchikan
Income and work in Ketchikan
- Median household income$85,275
- Per capita income$45,655
- Civilian labor force4,350
- Employed4,174
- Unemployed176 plus or minus 73
- Unemployment rate4.0 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over5,718
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.0 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ketchikan
Housing in Ketchikan
- Housing units3,944
- Occupied units3,415
- Vacant units529
- Vacancy rate13.4 percent
- Owner occupied2,097
- Renter occupied1,318
- Ownership rate61.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$352,400
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,417
- Annual rent as a share of median income19.9 percent
- Single family units1,809
- Share single family45.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,073
- Share in buildings of two or more52.6 percent
- Mobile homes62 plus or minus 38
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ketchikan
How Ketchikan gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute3,933
- Commuting under 15 minutes3,207
- Share commuting under 15 minutes81.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more145 plus or minus 77
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more3.7 percent plus or minus 1.9
- Drove alone66.4 percent
- Carpooled14.1 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Public transport0.6 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Walked10.1 percent plus or minus 3.3
- Worked from home5.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Ketchikan
SBA 7(a) lending to Ketchikan borrowers
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$5,734,700
- Average approval$573,470
- Median approval$350,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$2,821,300
- Largest approval$2,821,300
- Jobs supported37
- Jobs per approval3.7
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more30.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders5
- Distinct industries by NAICS9
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Ketchikan
SBA 504 lending to Ketchikan borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$485,000
- Average approval$161,667
- Median approval$200,000
- Largest approval$234,000
- Jobs supported6
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, not Ketchikan
Ketchikan Gateway Borough context, not Ketchikan figures
These are Ketchikan Gateway Borough figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Ketchikan measurements.
- Establishments in Ketchikan Gateway Borough603
- Employment at those establishments, Ketchikan Gateway Borough4,681
- Covered employment, Ketchikan Gateway Borough7,277
- Average annual pay, Ketchikan Gateway Borough$62,614
- Average weekly wage, Ketchikan Gateway Borough$1,204
- Housing units permitted, Ketchikan Gateway Borough62
- Of those, single family, Ketchikan Gateway Borough27
- County product, 2024, Ketchikan Gateway Borough$1,237,489,000
- County product change over the prior year, Ketchikan Gateway Borough5.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Ketchikan Gateway Borough$74,032
Every figure in this section is published for Ketchikan Gateway Borough as a whole and is not a measurement of Ketchikan. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Ketchikan questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Ketchikan, Alaska?
8,078, in 3,415 households. Ketchikan city covers 3.83 square miles of land, which is 2,109 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Ketchikan in?
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Ketchikan?
$85,275. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $352,400. Median gross rent is $1,417 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Ketchikan businesses?
10 7(a) approvals totalling $5.7 m, across 5 lenders, median approval $350,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $485,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Ketchikan, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Ketchikan borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Ketchikan. only 2 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Ketchikan figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Ketchikan Gateway Borough as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Ketchikan.
Is zoning published for Ketchikan?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.