Bethel, Alaska

What Bethel is made of: the communities whose institutions are here, the sectors its 165 businesses sit in, the franchises already on the ground, and the services a newcomer could start.

165 businesses on file · 31 trades · 18 sectors · registry population 6,325 · built from geonet.alaska on 2026-10-27

Businesses165
0% carry coordinates
Specialised in7
trades above the national pattern
Places of worship7
Franchise brands1
already operating here

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The local economy

What the business base is made of, what it is specialised in against the national pattern, and what that mix implies. This is the part a development office would read first.

Composition, not health. geonet records what trades exist and where; it does not record formation, closure, employment or revenue, so none of those appear here. What makes this economics rather than a directory is the NAICS coding: it lets the local mix be read against the BLS survival curves and against the 323 industry groups this research has screened.

The two biggest markets here

Every industry group on this page links through to its NAICS page, and to the screened market report where this research has one — that is what the trait-to-NAICS coding buys.

Business density26.1
businesses per 1,000 residents, against the registry population of 6,325
Breadth of the base998
broad — 31 industry groups, top three 48.9%
Survival the mix implies57.5%
at five years, against 51.4% for all private establishments
Coded to NAICS84.2%
of which 60.4% unambiguous

What this city is specialised in

Location quotient is this city's share of a trade divided by the same share across 10 US metro tables. Above 1.25 is the conventional threshold for a local specialisation.

Thin against the national pattern

Common trades that are under-represented here. For someone deciding what to open, this is the more useful half of the table — though a gap can mean unmet demand or a market that does not work here, and this does not tell you which.

The base against the entry screen

Businesses by the entry signal of the industry group they sit in, from the /markets screen. A large "structure decides" share means most local trades are ones where being better than the incumbent does not by itself win. A trade is matched to the screened record at whatever level the research wrote it — the same code, a broader one, or a narrower one. Where a group holds several screened sub-markets the count is shown, because no single one of them speaks for the whole group.

Enter
32.4%
45 businesses
Caution
51.8%
72 businesses
Structure decides
15.8%
22 businesses
Not screened
0%
0 businesses

How to read the survival figure

Each sector's five-year establishment survival rate, weighted by how many of this city's businesses sit in that sector. It is a property of the MIX, not of these businesses — it says what survival this composition would imply at US private-sector rates, because no Canadian equivalent series exists.

Weighted over 91.4% of the coded base — public administration carries no curve. Source: Business Employment Dynamics — Table 7, Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And what it does not measure

A "mixed" trait is one that genuinely spans codes — "computers" covers systems design, repair and supply. The clear share is how much of this reading rests on unambiguous coding. Business density also reflects how completely the directory covers a place, not only how many businesses are in it — so it compares poorly between a city the register knows well and one it does not.

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Who lives here, and who the city is for

The census: the only figures on this page that count people rather than businesses, and the three cohort readings they make possible.

No census place is mapped for ak-bethel in local/census-map-us.json, so this page carries no demographics. The mapping is explicit because the United States has dozens of Springfields and Troys, and attaching the wrong one would put another city's figures on this page.

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The communities the register shows

A community appears in the business register before it appears in prose — a national church, a society, a credit union, a newspaper. Those are counted as institutions, and they are what suggests residents. A restaurant serving a cuisine is counted separately as trade, because every city has those and they say nothing about who lives nearby. The ranking is by institutions.

CommunityInstitutions WorshipTrade Where it shows
Korean 1 1 —
Bethel Korean Church
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Where the communities are

Streets, not neighbourhood names. The data knows that Greek institutions sit on one street and Greek restaurants on another; it does not know the word "Greektown", so it does not use it.

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What the city is made of

Every business on file, grouped by the sector it trades in. This is the economic-development view: where the 165 businesses actually are, and the specific trades inside each sector.

SectorBusinesses ShareWhat is in it
Living 28 17% camping (15) · place of worship (7) · daycare (4) · garden (1) · fire safety (1)
Realty 27 16.4% real estate (27)
Education 25 15.2% school (25)
Business 16 9.7% government (8) · accounting (4) · association (3) · foundation (1)
Health 8 4.8% medical clinic (6) · home healthcare (1)
Logistics 8 4.8% packaging (1)
Food 7 4.2% grocer (6) · catering (1)
Construction 7 4.2% heating and cooling (3) · painting (3) · aluminum (1)
Travel 6 3.6% airline (3) · motel (1) · bnb (1)
Automotive 5 3% auto repair (1)
Finance 4 2.4% mortgage (2) · real estate (1) · insurance (1)
Security 4 2.4% police (4)
Dining 2 1.2% pizza (2)
Sports 2 1.2% boating marine (2)
Law 1 0.6%
Entertainment 1 0.6% dj (1)
Retail 1 0.6% antiques (1)
Fashion 1 0.6% clothing (1)
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The franchises already here

Brands from a register of 2,024 franchise systems, matched into this city by name. A high count is a signal in both directions: the territory works, and it may be taken.

BrandCategory HereWorldwide
Assist-2-Sell realestate 1 630
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Real estate as a local trade

Four unrelated jobs share the name: selling existing homes, owning and letting them, managing them for someone else, and building new ones. For anyone weighing a move or a licence these are the counts — and the ownership question goes to /property, which answers it building by building.

Real estate is a local job market in its own right, and four unrelated trades get the same name. Counts are businesses filed under each trade in the register, which lists a brokerage once however many agents work there — so this measures firms, not licensees.

Selling homes

5312
28 firms · LQ 2.53

Offices of agents and brokers — the resale market, and the biggest single trade in most Canadian cities.

Named in the register
  • American Home Mortgage — 152 Greenwood Avenue
  • Assist 2 Sell Evans Realty — 1 P T Barnum Square
  • C B Comm Scalzo Grp — 6 Stony Hill Road Suite 220
  • Era Goodfellow Homes — 106a Greenwood Avenue
  • Gager and Emerson LLP — 2 Stony Hill Road
  • Guaranty Residential Lending — 219 Greenwood Avenue
  • Marston Real Estate — 3 Sharon Court
  • Miller Appraisals — 182 Grassy Plains Road
  • Mulvihill Realty — 12 Fleetwood Park
  • Northern Fairfield County Asso — 15 Stony Hill Road
  • Re Max Hilltop — 122 Greenwood Avenue
  • Re Max Hilltop — 49 Stony Hill Road
  • Sterling Lending Group — 2 Stony Hill Road
  • William Pitt SothebyS IntL — 213 Greenwood Avenue

Financing it

5222
2 firms · LQ 2.52

Mortgage brokers and non-bank lenders.

Named in the register
  • Connecticut First Capital — 227 Greenwood Avenue
  • Greenpoint Closing Services — 93 Greenwood Avenue

On "how many doors"

How many doors a landlord holds is not in any of this. The register files an apartment building under the building, not its owner, and carries no unit count; there is no open dataset of Canadian landlords by portfolio. Where this research has established ownership it is in the /property record for the city, building by building, which is a different and much slower exercise.

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Work on the go, mobile services

The Ultimate 411 half of local: everything where the customer does not have to come to you. Each service opens a page on Ultimate 411 to request a quote or book a time.

A shop needs the customer to walk in. These 186 services do the opposite — the mobile mechanic, the mobile groomer, the bookkeeper, the junk haul — and they are the ones a person can start without a lease. 1 of them already match a trait filed in this city's register.

The 186 Service=1 rows in search.local: work on the go, mobile services, where the provider travels to the customer. "present" counts businesses already filed under that exact trait name; a blank is a coverage gap, not proof of absence, because the two vocabularies were built separately.

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Schools and colleges

wander.schools is a post-secondary table — universities and colleges. K-12 public and private schools are not in it, and only 7 of its 1,686 rows carry coordinates, so these are listed and not mapped.

In the business register

Where schooling shows up as a business rather than an institution — which is where K-12, tutoring and childcare appear.

school 25daycare 4
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Health and care

What a person moving a parent here would ask first. The register files clinics and pharmacies; it has no category for a hospital at all, so hospitals are matched by name and the limit is stated rather than hidden.

Medical clinics6
Pharmacies0
Dental practices0

geonet carries no 'hospital' trait, so these are matched on the business name. A distance-to-hospital figure needs a source that states hospital locations.

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What this record cannot tell you

Named in full, because the gaps are the part most likely to be misread as an answer.

  • No census figures on this page: this region is not mapped to a census subdivision in local/census-map.json, so the community counts here are business-register institutions, which is a different measurement and cannot substitute for a population.
  • wander.schools is now readable, but it holds universities and colleges only and 1,679 of its 1,686 rows have no coordinates. K-12 public and private schools need a separate source — in Ontario the Ministry of Education school finder, in British Columbia the provincial school list. wander.citytowns, hotels and territories remain denied to the ru user.
  • No 'hospital' trait exists in geonet; distance to a hospital needs an external source such as StatCan's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.
  • 100.0% of businesses here carry no coordinates, so a map or address lookup would miss them. Postal codes reach 100%.

Built from

  • geonet.alaska — the local business register
  • wander.regions — city name, population, metro
  • search.local — trait vocabulary and the come-to-you services
  • search.cozfranchises — 2,024 franchise brands