Shelby, Michigan

Shelby population, 2020 to 2024

Shelby added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

Shelby covers 1.64 square miles of land, for 1,327 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Shelby is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shelby is in

All of Shelby's residents live in Oceana County, which had 27,014 residents in 2024. Shelby holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shelby

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shelby by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 49455. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Shelby is

The Census internal point of Shelby is at 43.612100, -86.364500. Lansing, the capital, is 109.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Montague, MI (2,425 people), 13.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Grand Rapids, MI, 57.4 miles away.

Daylight in Shelby

At 43.61° N, Shelby gets about 15 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shelby

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Hart, 5.8 miles away, with 2,059 people.