Wasilla, AK: Where would it rank in your state?

[minnesota_liberal]

Besides her 21 months as governor of the only state in the US with no budgetary worries (thanks to tons of oil money), the John McCain campaign is touting Sarah Palin's 6 years as mayor of Wasilla as one of her major qualifications for Vice President.

But even though Wasilla ranks somewhere between 4th and 6th biggest city in Alaska - depending on what source you use and what year - it barely makes the top 100 in many states.

Check the city population estimates from the US Census Bureau to see where Wasilla would rank in your state!

http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/SUB-EST2007-4.html

Using the July 2007 estimates (showing Wasilla way above what the city's website lists), it would rank around #91 in Minnesota.

[WinkyDink]

1. With Mayor Palin, it would be rank in any state.

[minnesota_liberal]

5. Looks like about #72 in PA

If you count cities and "burroughs".

[AllentownJake]

16. If you count townships

It would be in the mid 500s

[hobbit709]

2. Not even in the top 1200 in TX

Outranked even by some major cultural backwaters.

[liberal N proud]

3. Officially - 180 or higher

In reality it would be known as the town near the next larger town as is Wasilla is close to Anchorage.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. In Florida we have retirement villages larger than Wasilla. n/t

[mucifer]

6. Here in IL, Chicago is a weee bit larger.

[frazzled]

13. My aldermanic ward in Chicago is ten times bigger than Wasila

I think the pop. of Wasila was around 7,000 back during Palin's tenure. I think my ward has approx. 85,000 people. My alderman has more experience than she.

[Nipper1959]

7. I wouldn't say that it would be the asshole of our state, but

if Wisconsin was to get an enema it quite possibly would end up in Wasilla, if it was here that is.

[mwooldri]

8. #75 in NC.

Here's the interesting thing. Everyone knows the Andy Griffith Show, right? They say it's based around Mt. Airy, NC. (of course it was shot in a studio in Hollywood). Mt. Airy itself is slightly smaller than Wasilla. But places like Flat Rock and Pilot Mountain are nearby real life Mt. Airy so I guess you could say "Metropolitan Mayberry" is bigger than Wasilla, AK.

But then to be fair to these posted statistics, NC has some "towns" smaller than those in AK.. but AK has NC beat; it's smallest is Kupreanof with 21; Love Valley is NC's smallest with 57.

[SheilaT]

9. Even in New Mexico,

which isn't exactly a state full of high population cities, it would be about 22nd largest.

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Seattle's suburbs have suburbs that are bigger

I found Maps-n-Stats in a Google search, which provides this kind of information.

The population of Wasilla on that site is 5,469. Washington's 50th largest city is Spanaway with a population of 21,588. If anyone claimed that, as mayor of Spanaway they had the necessary experience to be Vice President, they would be laughed out of the state for being an idiot.

[minnesota_liberal]

17. Thanks for the Maps-n-Stats source

BTW, laughing an idiot out of the state would be SEXIST if the idiot in question were both female and a Republican.

[NC_Nurse]

11. A small redneck exurb of ATL.

There's plenty of those. Yuck.

[zulchzulu]

12. There's a suburb in Madison called Oregon that's a little bigger than Wasilla

I know people who have been there and if you blinked while driving, you'd miss it. It's more like a village.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. My suburb of DC is bigger

And I'll bet our mayor doesn't earn as much money as she did.

[AllentownJake]

15. About the size of the town my Grandfather was mayor of

Which was a very small town. It was the 80s but they would bring beer to town council meetings.