#1Wasilla
Matanuska-Susitna Borough9,059 in 2020·10,556 in 2025·+1,497 people
Wasilla, #1 on this list · Photo: Justin Morgan · CC BY-SA 2.0Alaska rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Alaska
Wasilla has grown fastest of Alaska’s 19 towns of 2,500+: up 16.5% from 9,059 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 10,556 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed −1.4%; 11 of the 19 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+16.5%
#2Homer
Kenai Peninsula Borough5,525 in 2020·6,331 in 2025·+806 people
#3Palmer
Matanuska-Susitna Borough5,885 in 2020·6,710 in 2025·+825 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in Alaska?
Wasilla (Matanuska-Susitna Borough): it grew 16.5%, from 9,059 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 10,556 in July 2025. Homer (+14.6%) and Palmer (+14.0%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (19 in Alaska). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Alaska page.
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