Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Wayne added 8,809 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +2,795. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Fort Wayne is 18.8 times that size.

Fort Wayne covers 111.76 square miles of land and 0.33 of water, for 2,445 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Fort Wayne is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Wayne is in

All of Fort Wayne's residents live in Allen County, which had 399,295 residents in 2024. Fort Wayne holds 68.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Wayne

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Wayne by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46802, 46803, 46804, 46805, 46806, 46807, 46808, 46809, 46814, 46815, 46816, 46818, 46825, 46835, 46845. 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 Fort Wayne is

The Census internal point of Fort Wayne is at 41.088200, -85.142800. Indianapolis, the capital, is 105.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indianapolis, IN (891,484 people), 104.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Bend, IN, 71.1 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 232 m (761 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Fort Wayne

At 41.09° N, Fort Wayne gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Fort Wayne daylight page.

Places near Fort Wayne

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is New Haven, 6.7 miles away, with 16,200 people.