Waynesville, Missouri

Waynesville population, 2020 to 2024

Waynesville added 65 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +34. Among 135 Missouri places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 67th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Missouri has 12,239 people, so Waynesville is 45% of it.

Waynesville covers 7.15 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 768 people per square mile of land. The median Missouri place of 5,000+ has 1,448, so Waynesville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Waynesville is in

All of Waynesville's residents live in Pulaski County, which had 53,964 residents in 2024. Waynesville holds 10.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waynesville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waynesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 65583. 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 Waynesville is

The Census internal point of Waynesville is at 37.819400, -92.219300. Jefferson City, the capital, is 52.5 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Robert, MO (5,511 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, MO, 73.0 miles away.

Daylight in Waynesville

At 37.82° N, Waynesville gets about 14 h 47 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 33 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waynesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Missouri, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Robert, 3.7 miles away, with 5,511 people.