Wyoming · Census place 5653460

Mills, Wyoming

Mills is a town in Natrona County, Wyoming with an estimated 4,584 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 19th largest of 43 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,584
#19 of 43 in Wyoming
Change since 2020
+8.4%
+357 people
Land area
5.1 sq mi
+ 0.06 sq mi water
Density
901 / sq mi
State median 1,493
Orange pin: Mills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Cheyenne.

Mills population, 2020 to 2024

Mills added 357 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.4%. In the latest year it moved by +71.

4,22720204,24220214,42220224,51320234,5842024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,199. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Mills covers 5.09 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 901 people per square mile of land. The median Wyoming place of 5,000+ has 1,493, so Mills is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mills is in

All of Mills's residents live in Natrona County, which had 80,410 residents in 2024. Mills holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mills

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 82601, 82604, 82644. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Mills is

The Census internal point of Mills is at 42.849900, -106.390800. Cheyenne, the capital, is 143.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Casper, WY (58,823 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Collins, CO, 173.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.849900, -106.390800
DMS
42°50'59.64"N 106°23'26.88"W
UTM
13N 386361.8E 4745084.7N
Geohash
9xs7g08df
Plus code
85JMRJX5+XM

Daylight in Mills

At 42.85° N, Mills gets about 15 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 19 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Wyoming, measured between internal points. The closest is Casper, 3.6 miles away, with 58,823 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Mills, WY?

4,584 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 357 (8.4%) from 4,227 in July 2020.

What county is Mills in?

Natrona County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Mills?

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 82601, 82604, 82644.

How far is Mills from Cheyenne?

143.0 miles (230.2 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Mills.

What is the nearest larger city to Mills?

Casper, WY, with 58,823 residents, 3.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.