Shafter, California

Shafter population, 2020 to 2024

Shafter added 2,691 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.4%. In the latest year it moved by +837. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Shafter is 61% of it.

Shafter covers 38.70 square miles of land, for 588 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Shafter is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shafter is in

All of Shafter's residents live in Kern County, which had 922,529 residents in 2024. Shafter holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shafter

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shafter by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 93263. 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 Shafter is

The Census internal point of Shafter is at 35.479400, -119.201300. Sacramento, the capital, is 248.6 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wasco, CA (27,409 people), 12.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bakersfield, CA, 12.7 miles away.

Daylight in Shafter

At 35.48° N, Shafter 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 Shafter

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Wasco, 12.2 miles away, with 27,409 people.