Wapello, Iowa

Wapello population, 2020 to 2024

Wapello lost 55 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

Wapello covers 1.30 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,558 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Wapello is denser than the typical town.

What county Wapello is in

All of Wapello's residents live in Louisa County, which had 10,630 residents in 2024. Wapello holds 19.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wapello

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wapello by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 52653. 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 Wapello is

The Census internal point of Wapello is at 41.177200, -91.189000. Des Moines, the capital, is 128.4 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Muscatine, IA (23,298 people), 17.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Davenport, IA, 40.1 miles away.

Daylight in Wapello

At 41.18° N, Wapello gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wapello

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbus Junction, 11.5 miles away, with 1,794 people.