Waynesboro, Georgia

Waynesboro population, 2020 to 2024

Waynesboro lost 232 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.0%. In the latest year it moved by -42. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 143rd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Waynesboro is 34% of it.

Waynesboro covers 5.47 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,016 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Waynesboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Waynesboro is in

All of Waynesboro's residents live in Burke County, which had 24,472 residents in 2024. Waynesboro holds 22.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waynesboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waynesboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30830. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Waynesboro is

The Census internal point of Waynesboro is at 33.091300, -82.014300. Atlanta, the capital, is 144.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Augusta-Richmond County, GA (201,737 people), 19.3 miles away.

Daylight in Waynesboro

At 33.09° N, Waynesboro gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waynesboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Hephzibah, 14.7 miles away, with 3,827 people.