Shaw, Mississippi

Shaw population, 2020 to 2024

Shaw lost 105 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -7.2%. In the latest year it moved by -17.

Shaw covers 1.11 square miles of land, for 1,214 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Shaw is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Shaw spans

Shaw crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 1,347 residents as follows; Bolivar County holds 99.7% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shaw

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shaw by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 38773. 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 Shaw is

The Census internal point of Shaw is at 33.601500, -90.772000. Jackson, the capital, is 96.2 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cleveland, MS (10,183 people), 10.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jackson, MS, 94.6 miles away.

Daylight in Shaw

At 33.60° N, Shaw gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shaw

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Cleveland, 10.2 miles away, with 10,183 people.