Shelbyville, Indiana

Shelbyville population, 2020 to 2024

Shelbyville added 719 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +217. Among 126 Indiana places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +1.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Indiana has 14,565 people, so Shelbyville is 1.4 times that size.

Shelbyville covers 13.69 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 1,523 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Shelbyville is close to the typical town.

What county Shelbyville is in

All of Shelbyville's residents live in Shelby County, which had 45,654 residents in 2024. Shelbyville holds 45.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shelbyville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shelbyville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 46176. 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 Shelbyville is

The Census internal point of Shelbyville is at 39.545300, -85.779500. Indianapolis, the capital, is 25.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Franklin, IN (26,158 people), 14.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Indianapolis, IN, 25.2 miles away.

Daylight in Shelbyville

At 39.55° N, Shelbyville gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shelbyville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Morristown, 10.5 miles away, with 1,197 people.