Waynesboro, Mississippi

Waynesboro population, 2020 to 2024

Waynesboro lost 62 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -7.

Waynesboro covers 12.69 square miles of land, for 355 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Waynesboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Waynesboro is in

All of Waynesboro's residents live in Wayne County, which had 19,749 residents in 2024. Waynesboro holds 22.8% 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: 39367. 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 31.677600, -88.633800. Jackson, the capital, is 100.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Laurel, MS (17,508 people), 30.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 76.4 miles away.

Daylight in Waynesboro

At 31.68° N, Waynesboro gets about 14 h 13 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 08 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 Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Quitman, 25.7 miles away, with 1,948 people.