Wooster, Ohio

Wooster population, 2020 to 2024

Wooster lost 255 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.9%. In the latest year it moved by -80. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 159th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Wooster is 1.9 times that size.

Wooster covers 17.46 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,545 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Wooster is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wooster is in

All of Wooster's residents live in Wayne County, which had 116,632 residents in 2024. Wooster holds 23.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wooster

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wooster by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 44691. 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 Wooster is

The Census internal point of Wooster is at 40.819100, -81.931600. Columbus, the capital, is 81.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Massillon, OH (32,750 people), 21.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Akron, OH, 28.0 miles away.

Daylight in Wooster

At 40.82° N, Wooster gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wooster

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Smithville, 4.8 miles away, with 1,338 people.