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Point MacKenzie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough and part of the Anchorage metropolitan area.

At the 2020 census, Point MacKenzie had a population of 1,852, up 250.1 percent from 529 in 2010, after 111 residents in 2000 and just 25 in 1960.

Point MacKenzie first reported on the 1960 census as the unincorporated village of “McKenzie Point,” it was drawn into Matanuska-Susitna Borough when the borough was created in 1963, and it did not report again until 2000, when it returned as Point MacKenzie and was made a census-designated place.

In Shem Pete's Alaska, a collection of recollections about Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina Athabascans, Point MacKenzie is identified as Dilhi Tunch'del'usht Beydegh, meaning “Point where we transport hooligan,” a trade site where the Dghelay Teht'ana, or Mountain People, of the Talkeetna Mountains traded with the Dena'ina of the Knik Arm.

In the 1970s, a grand planned community called Seward's Success was once proposed to be built at Point MacKenzie, but it was never constructed.

Point MacKenzie covers 164.79 square miles according to the 2020 Gazetteer, of which 162.33 square miles is land and 2.46 square miles is water, at an elevation of 213 feet.

The 2020 census counted only 139 households in Point MacKenzie, while most of the CDP's residents live in group quarters rather than conventional households, and the median age was 40.2 years, with only 5.7 percent of residents under 18.

There were 293 housing units in Point MacKenzie in 2020, of which 52.6 percent were vacant.

The racial composition of Point MacKenzie in 2020 was 45.7 percent White, 35.2 percent American Indian and Alaska Native, 6.6 percent Black or African American, and 6.5 percent two or more races, with 4.9 percent of residents Hispanic or Latino.

Point MacKenzie is entirely rural by census classification, with 0.0 percent of residents living in urban areas and 100.0 percent in rural areas.