Shelton, Washington

Shelton population, 2020 to 2024

Shelton added 301 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +82. Among 125 Washington places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Washington has 18,148 people, so Shelton is 59% of it.

Shelton covers 6.47 square miles of land and 0.44 of water, for 1,660 people per square mile of land. The median Washington place of 5,000+ has 2,694, so Shelton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Shelton is in

All of Shelton's residents live in Mason County, which had 69,632 residents in 2024. Shelton holds 15.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shelton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shelton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 98584. 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 Shelton is

The Census internal point of Shelton is at 47.225600, -123.112200. Olympia, the capital, is 16.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Olympia, WA (56,271 people), 16.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tacoma, WA, 30.6 miles away.

Daylight in Shelton

At 47.23° N, Shelton gets about 15 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shelton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Washington, measured between internal points. The closest is McCleary, 13.7 miles away, with 2,059 people.