Wakefield, Nebraska

Wakefield population, 2020 to 2024

Wakefield lost 11 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

Wakefield covers 1.06 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,430 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Wakefield is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Wakefield spans

Wakefield crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 1,516 residents as follows; Dixon County holds 76.3% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wakefield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wakefield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68784. 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 Wakefield is

The Census internal point of Wakefield is at 42.266700, -96.862900. Lincoln, the capital, is 101.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wayne, NE (6,229 people), 7.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Omaha, NE, 81.0 miles away.

Daylight in Wakefield

At 42.27° N, Wakefield gets about 15 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wakefield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Wayne, 7.7 miles away, with 6,229 people.