Wabash, Indiana

Wabash population, 2020 to 2024

Wabash lost 152 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -29. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 111th; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Wabash is 71% of it.

Wabash covers 9.65 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 1,065 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Wabash is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wabash is in

All of Wabash's residents live in Wabash County, which had 30,777 residents in 2024. Wabash holds 33.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wabash

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wabash by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46992. 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 Wabash is

The Census internal point of Wabash is at 40.802800, -85.829200. Indianapolis, the capital, is 73.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Peru, IN (11,003 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 40.9 miles away.

Daylight in Wabash

At 40.80° N, Wabash gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wabash

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Andrews, 12.5 miles away, with 1,061 people.