Waynesville, North Carolina

Waynesville population, 2020 to 2024

Waynesville added 465 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Waynesville is 73% of it.

Waynesville covers 8.97 square miles of land, for 1,194 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Waynesville is close to the typical town.

What county Waynesville is in

All of Waynesville's residents live in Haywood County, which had 63,048 residents in 2024. Waynesville holds 17.0% 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 town's land: 28786. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Waynesville is

The Census internal point of Waynesville is at 35.485700, -82.999200. Raleigh, the capital, is 245.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asheville, NC (94,992 people), 25.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 62.9 miles away.

Daylight in Waynesville

At 35.49° N, Waynesville gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 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 North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Maggie Valley, 4.5 miles away, with 1,742 people.