Wayland is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States.

In historic times, for centuries it had been territory inhabited by the Seneca Native Americans, one of the powerful five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy.

The Rowe House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The northern and part of the western town lines form the border of Livingston County.

As the Erie Lackawanna Railway's former Lackawanna mainline from Buffalo had a steep grade eastbound from Groveland to Perkinsville that was easily bypassed by the former Erie mainline via Hornell, with far easier grades, the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad mainline trackage between Groveland and Wayland was abandoned and torn-up in late 1963.

23.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.