Shelton, Connecticut

Shelton population, 2020 to 2024

Shelton added 2,043 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +517. Among 21 Connecticut places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Connecticut has 55,379 people, so Shelton is 77% of it.

Shelton covers 30.63 square miles of land and 1.27 of water, for 1,397 people per square mile of land. The median Connecticut place of 5,000+ has 3,189, so Shelton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shelton is in

All of Shelton's residents live in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, which had 462,220 residents in 2024. Shelton holds 9.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shelton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shelton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 06484. 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 Shelton is

The Census internal point of Shelton is at 41.304600, -73.139200. Hartford, the capital, is 39.6 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Milford, CT (51,004 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bridgeport, CT, 8.6 miles away.

Daylight in Shelton

At 41.30° N, Shelton gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shelton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Connecticut, measured between internal points. The closest is Derby, 3.3 miles away, with 12,915 people.