Texas · Census place 4867100

Shady Shores, Texas

Shady Shores is a town in Denton County, Texas with an estimated 3,005 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 495th largest of 804 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,005
#495 of 804 in Texas
Change since 2020
+8.1%
+224 people
Land area
3.2 sq mi
Density
927 / sq mi
State median 1,561
Orange pin: Shady Shores. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Austin.

Shady Shores population, 2020 to 2024

Shady Shores added 224 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.1%. In the latest year it moved by +32.

2,78120202,86120212,94720222,97320233,0052024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,768. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Shady Shores covers 3.24 square miles of land, for 927 people per square mile of land. The median Texas place of 5,000+ has 1,561, so Shady Shores is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shady Shores is in

All of Shady Shores's residents live in Denton County, which had 1,045,120 residents in 2024. Shady Shores holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shady Shores

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shady Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 76208. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Shady Shores is

The Census internal point of Shady Shores is at 33.162100, -97.035000. Austin, the capital, is 203.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Corinth, TX (24,450 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Denton, TX, 7.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.162100, -97.035000
DMS
33°09'43.56"N 97°02'6.00"W
UTM
14N 683240.3E 3670976.8N
Geohash
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Plus code
86545X68+R2

Daylight in Shady Shores

At 33.16° N, Shady Shores gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shady Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Texas, measured between internal points. The closest is Corinth, 2.4 miles away, with 24,450 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Shady Shores, TX?

3,005 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 224 (8.1%) from 2,781 in July 2020.

What county is Shady Shores in?

Denton County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Shady Shores?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 76208.

How far is Shady Shores from Austin?

203.8 miles (328.0 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Shady Shores.

What is the nearest larger city to Shady Shores?

Corinth, TX, with 24,450 residents, 2.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.