Waverly, Iowa

Waverly population, 2020 to 2024

Waverly added 160 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +11. Among 85 Iowa places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 40th; the median place changed by +1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in Iowa has 9,511 people, so Waverly is 1.1 times that size.

Waverly covers 11.26 square miles of land and 0.50 of water, for 939 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Waverly is less dense than the typical town.

What county Waverly is in

All of Waverly's residents live in Bremer County, which had 25,328 residents in 2024. Waverly holds 41.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waverly

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waverly by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50677. 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 Waverly is

The Census internal point of Waverly is at 42.722000, -92.469500. Des Moines, the capital, is 97.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cedar Falls, IA (41,417 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 66.1 miles away.

Daylight in Waverly

At 42.72° N, Waverly gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waverly

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Janesville, 5.3 miles away, with 1,052 people.