Wayne, West Virginia

Wayne population, 2020 to 2024

Wayne lost 43 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.0%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Wayne covers 1.18 square miles of land, for 1,181 people per square mile of land. The median West Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,823, so Wayne is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wayne is in

All of Wayne's residents live in Wayne County, which had 37,589 residents in 2024. Wayne holds 3.7% 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 town's land: 25570. 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 Wayne is

The Census internal point of Wayne is at 38.229800, -82.441600. Charleston, the capital, is 45.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Louisa, KY (2,509 people), 12.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lexington-Fayette, KY, 110.4 miles away.

Daylight in Wayne

At 38.23° N, Wayne gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 20 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 West Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Huntington, 12.5 miles away, with 44,942 people.