Shelbyville, Kentucky

Shelbyville population, 2020 to 2024

Shelbyville added 698 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +208. Among 79 Kentucky places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +2.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kentucky has 10,541 people, so Shelbyville is 1.7 times that size.

Shelbyville covers 9.98 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 1,808 people per square mile of land. The median Kentucky place of 5,000+ has 1,588, so Shelbyville is denser than the typical town.

What county Shelbyville is in

All of Shelbyville's residents live in Shelby County, which had 50,124 residents in 2024. Shelbyville holds 36.0% 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: 40065. 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 38.207600, -85.229300. Frankfort, the capital, is 19.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jeffersontown, KY (29,388 people), 18.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Louisville/Jefferson County, KY, 22.9 miles away.

Daylight in Shelbyville

At 38.21° N, Shelbyville gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 19 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 Kentucky, measured between internal points. The closest is Simpsonville, 6.4 miles away, with 3,119 people.