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Shelby CDP, Alabama: commercial real estate data.
Shelby CDP is a Census CDP of 809 people across 18.76 square miles of land, in Shelby County. 90.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Shelby
What Shelby is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area18.76 sq mi
- Water area0.25 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land43 plus or minus 13
- County holding the largest share of its areaShelby County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby
How many people live in Shelby
- Population809 plus or minus 253
- Median age58.2
- Population under 1895 plus or minus 67
- Share under 1811.7 percent plus or minus 7.4
- Population 65 and over292 plus or minus 136
- Share 65 and over36.1 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Households376 plus or minus 125
- Family households234 plus or minus 93
- Share of households that are families62.2 percent plus or minus 13.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby
Income and work in Shelby
- Per capita income$27,627 plus or minus $6,126
- Civilian labor force314 plus or minus 151
- Employed314 plus or minus 151
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over626 plus or minus 194
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher90.9 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher20.0 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.3 percent plus or minus 5.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby
Housing in Shelby
- Housing units439 plus or minus 134
- Occupied units376 plus or minus 125
- Vacant units63 plus or minus 72
- Vacancy rate14.4 percent plus or minus 15.8
- Owner occupied341 plus or minus 118
- Renter occupied35 plus or minus 30
- Ownership rate90.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$158,200 plus or minus $64,933
- Single family units231 plus or minus 109
- Share single family52.6 percent plus or minus 18.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes208 plus or minus 102
- Median year structure built1990
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby
How Shelby gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute314 plus or minus 151
- Commuting under 15 minutes118 plus or minus 58
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.6 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more120 plus or minus 79
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more38.2 percent plus or minus 17.1
- Drove alone78.7 percent plus or minus 19.1
- Carpooled21.3 percent plus or minus 17.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Shelby County, not Shelby
Shelby County context, not Shelby figures
These are Shelby County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Shelby measurements.
- Establishments in Shelby County5,610
- Employment at those establishments, Shelby County87,718
- Covered employment, Shelby County85,169
- Average annual pay, Shelby County$66,772
- Average weekly wage, Shelby County$1,284
- Housing units permitted, Shelby County990
- Of those, single family, Shelby County990
- County product, 2024, Shelby County$17,332,832,000
- County product change over the prior year, Shelby County3.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Shelby County$90,316
Every figure in this section is published for Shelby County as a whole and is not a measurement of Shelby. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- The American Community Survey does not publish a median household income for this place, which happens where the sample is too small to support one.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Shelby questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Shelby, Alabama?
809, in 376 households. Shelby CDP covers 18.76 square miles of land, which is 43 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Shelby in?
Shelby County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
Are the county figures on this page Shelby figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Shelby County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Shelby.
Is zoning published for Shelby?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.