diff --git a/src/wp-includes/interactivity-api/class-wp-interactivity-api.php b/src/wp-includes/interactivity-api/class-wp-interactivity-api.php
index f6764736f9e8a..8283349868d64 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/interactivity-api/class-wp-interactivity-api.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/interactivity-api/class-wp-interactivity-api.php
@@ -579,6 +579,36 @@ private function evaluate( $directive_value ) {
 		$path_segments = explode( '.', $path );
 		$current       = $store;
 		foreach ( $path_segments as $path_segment ) {
+			/*
+			 * Special case for numeric arrays and strings. Add length
+			 * property mimicking JavaScript behavior.
+			 *
+			 * @since 6.8.0
+			 */
+			if ( 'length' === $path_segment ) {
+				if ( is_array( $current ) && array_is_list( $current ) ) {
+					$current = count( $current );
+					break;
+				}
+
+				if ( is_string( $current ) ) {
+					/*
+					 * Differences in encoding between PHP strings and
+					 * JavaScript mean that it's complicated to calculate
+					 * the string length JavaScript would see from PHP.
+					 * `strlen` is a reasonable approximation.
+					 *
+					 * Users that desire a more precise length likely have
+					 * more precise needs than "bytelength" and should
+					 * implement their own length calculation in derived
+					 * state taking into account encoding and their desired
+					 * output (codepoints, graphemes, bytes, etc.).
+					 */
+					$current = strlen( $current );
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+
 			if ( ( is_array( $current ) || $current instanceof ArrayAccess ) && isset( $current[ $path_segment ] ) ) {
 				$current = $current[ $path_segment ];
 			} elseif ( is_object( $current ) && isset( $current->$path_segment ) ) {
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/interactivity-api/wpInteractivityAPI.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/interactivity-api/wpInteractivityAPI.php
index c63c64c6888e6..bcc4ba6bdf149 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/interactivity-api/wpInteractivityAPI.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/interactivity-api/wpInteractivityAPI.php
@@ -1541,4 +1541,48 @@ public function test_get_element_outside_of_directive_processing() {
 		$element = $this->interactivity->get_element();
 		$this->assertNull( $element );
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Verify behavior of .length directive access.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 62582
+	 *
+	 * @covers ::process_directives
+	 *
+	 * @dataProvider data_length_directives
+	 *
+	 * @param mixed $value     The property value.
+	 * @param string $expected The expected property length as a string,
+	 *                         or "" if no length is expected.
+	 */
+	public function test_process_directives_string_array_length( $value, string $expected ) {
+		$this->interactivity->state(
+			'myPlugin',
+			array( 'prop' => $value )
+		);
+		$html           = '<div data-wp-text="myPlugin::state.prop.length"></div>';
+		$processed_html = $this->interactivity->process_directives( $html );
+		$processor      = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $processed_html );
+		$processor->next_tag( 'DIV' );
+		$processor->next_token();
+		$this->assertSame( $expected, $processor->get_modifiable_text() );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Data provider.
+	 *
+	 * @return array
+	 */
+	public static function data_length_directives(): array {
+		return array(
+			'numeric array'     => array( array( 'a', 'b', 'c' ), '3' ),
+			'empty array'       => array( array(), '0' ),
+			'string'            => array( 'abc', '3' ),
+			'empty string'      => array( '', '0' ),
+
+			// Failure cases resulting in empty string.
+			'non-numeric array' => array( array( 'a' => 'a' ), '' ),
+			'object'            => array( new stdClass(), '' ),
+		);
+	}
 }