Wayne, Nebraska

Wayne population, 2020 to 2024

Wayne added 255 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +60. Among 32 Nebraska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Nebraska has 10,206 people, so Wayne is 61% of it.

Wayne covers 2.91 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,141 people per square mile of land. The median Nebraska place of 5,000+ has 1,829, so Wayne is denser than the typical town.

What county Wayne is in

All of Wayne's residents live in Wayne County, which had 9,870 residents in 2024. Wayne holds 63.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wayne

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wayne by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 68787. 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 Wayne is

The Census internal point of Wayne is at 42.237500, -97.008900. Lincoln, the capital, is 100.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Norfolk, NE (26,162 people), 25.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Omaha, NE, 83.5 miles away.

Daylight in Wayne

At 42.24° N, Wayne gets about 15 h 16 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 Wayne

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Nebraska, measured between internal points. The closest is Wakefield, 7.7 miles away, with 1,516 people.