Shell Rock, Iowa

Shell Rock population, 2020 to 2024

Shell Rock lost 3 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by -12.

Shell Rock covers 1.60 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 791 people per square mile of land. The median Iowa place of 5,000+ has 1,363, so Shell Rock is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shell Rock is in

All of Shell Rock's residents live in Butler County, which had 14,156 residents in 2024. Shell Rock holds 8.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shell Rock

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shell Rock by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 50670. 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 Shell Rock is

The Census internal point of Shell Rock is at 42.712300, -92.581700. Des Moines, the capital, is 93.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Waverly, IA (10,576 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cedar Rapids, IA, 69.3 miles away.

Daylight in Shell Rock

At 42.71° N, Shell Rock gets about 15 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shell Rock

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Iowa, measured between internal points. The closest is Waverly, 5.7 miles away, with 10,576 people.