Wasilla, Alaska

Wasilla population, 2020 to 2024

Wasilla added 1,203 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.2%. In the latest year it moved by +366. Among 11 Alaska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alaska has 8,033 people, so Wasilla is 1.3 times that size.

Wasilla covers 12.38 square miles of land and 0.75 of water, for 833 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Wasilla is denser than the typical town.

What county Wasilla is in

All of Wasilla's residents live in Matanuska-Susitna, which had 117,613 residents in 2024. Wasilla holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wasilla

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wasilla by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99654. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Wasilla is

The Census internal point of Wasilla is at 61.581100, -149.460800. Juneau, the capital, is 566.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anchorage, AK (289,600 people), 28.7 miles away.

Daylight in Wasilla

At 61.58° N, Wasilla gets about 19 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 5 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 14 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wasilla

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Houston, 11.4 miles away, with 2,226 people.