Wayne County, Michigan

Wayne County
County
Charter County of Wayne
Clockwise: Downtown Detroit, Ford World Headquarters, James Scott Memorial Fountain, Gateway Bridge, the Uniroyal Giant Tire and the Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Flag Seal Wordmark
Location in Michigan
Municipalities in Wayne County
Country	United States
State	Michigan
Region	Metro Detroit
Incorporated	1796 (created) 1815 (organized)[1][2]
Named for	Anthony Wayne
County seat and Largest city	Detroit
Government
• Executive	Warren Evans
Area
• Total	673 sq mi (1,740 km2)
• Land	612 sq mi (1,590 km2)
• Water	61 sq mi (160 km2)
Population  (2020)
• Total	1,793,561
• Estimate  (2023)	1,751,169
• Density	2,700/sq mi (1,000/km2)
GDP [3]
• Total	$112.857 billion (2022)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern Time Zone)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Area codes	313, 734, 248
Website	www.waynecounty.com

Wayne County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of 2020, the United States Census placed its population at 1,793,561, making it the 19th-most populous county in the United States.^[4] The county seat is Detroit.^[5] The county was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815.^[1] Wayne County is included in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of several U.S. counties named after Revolutionary War-era general Anthony Wayne.