Shelby, AL population, income and ZIP codes

Shelby CDP is a very small community in Alabama, with 691 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #382 of 593 ranked by population — larger than 35% of them. The median age here is 58 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Shelby CDP earn a median of not published a year. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 15.1% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Shelby CDP is valued at $95,200, 68.6% below the national figure and 40% below the $158,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 92.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 58 puts Shelby CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 691 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Shelby CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Shelby CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.