What is the population of Shelton city?

Shelton city has 10,619 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #124 of 639 in Washington.

What is the median household income in Shelton city?

Median household income in Shelton city is $60,589 a year, 22.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Shelton city?

Median gross rent is $1,298 a month and the median home value is $296,100, so rent absorbs about 25.7% of median household income.

Is Shelton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Shelton city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 25.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Shelton, WA population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Shelton, Washington (Shelton, WA — Census place “Shelton city”) is 10,619 residents, ranking #124 of 639 places in Washington. Median household income is $60,589, the median home is worth $296,100 and median gross rent runs $1,298 a month. Looking for the Shelton Washington ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Shelton, WA: 98584.

Population: 10,619Shelton city residents
Median household income: $60,589Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $296,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,298Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 31.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 52.9%Owner-occupied households

Shelton ZIP codes (Washington)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Shelton.

The Shelton WA ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

98584

What the numbers mean in Shelton city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Shelton city median would spend about 25.7% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 4.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 23.3% of residents and 52.9% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Shelton city, WA in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Shelton city is a mid-size town in Washington, with 10,619 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #124 of 639 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 31.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Shelton city earn a median of $60,589 a year, 22.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 33% below the $90,592 median for the 393 Washington cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 23.3% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Shelton city is valued at $296,100, 2.4% below the national figure and 37% below the $468,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,298 a month, 7.7% below the national figure, or roughly $15,576 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 52.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Shelton city?: Shelton city has 10,619 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #124 of 639 in Washington.
What is the median household income in Shelton city?: Median household income in Shelton city is $60,589 a year, 22.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Shelton city?: Median gross rent is $1,298 a month and the median home value is $296,100, so rent absorbs about 25.7% of median household income.
Is Shelton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Shelton city is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 25.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Shelton city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.