Abstract Introduction and Objectives: Increasing growth of the elderly population in many developed countries has drawn attention of researchers to this age group. Thus, one of the goals of community-based health studies has always been maintaining high quality of life at old age and help­ing the elderly people to have a successful aging, and this will not be possible without a proper understanding of the status of the elderly people in community. The objective of this study was to investigate the status of successful aging based on Selection, Optimization and Compensa­tion Model and its relationship with some demographic variables in the elderly population in Shiraz-Iran.Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 197 eligible elderly people were selected by multistage clus­ter sampling from four districts of Shiraz in 2018. To collect the data, the short version (12 items) of the HY­PERLINK “https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ fpsyg.2018.00410/full” \l “B4” Baltes & Baltes (1999) Selection, Optimization and Compensation Questionnaire (SOC) and Demographic Questionnaire were used. Data were analyzed through SPSS 16 software and Spearman, Mann-Whitney, and Kruskal-Wallis tests.Results: a total of 99 males (55.3%) and 80 females (44.7%) aged 60 to 97 years with a mean age of 72.4 ± 8.70 years participated in this study. Mean and standard deviation of successful aging score was 6.58 ± 3.42 [Min = 0 and Max = 12]. Based on the results, gender had no significant correlation with the mean score of successful aging and its dimensions (P value >0.05).Discussion: However, the age variable was inversely cor­related with the compensation strategy (P value = 0.048). Level of education showed a direct and significant cor­relation with the mean scores of all three dimensions of successful aging (selection, optimization and compensa­tion strategies) (P value = 0.0001). Based on the results, there was an inverse and significant correlation between marital status and mean score of optimization and com­pensation (P value = 0.008). The number of children was also significantly correlated with change-based selection and overall successful aging (P value = 0.007 and P value = 0.043; respectively).Conclusion: Based on the results, the studied elderly people accounted for more than half of the score of suc­cessful aging. Successful aging scores were significantly correlated with variables such as age, level of education, marital status, and number of children. Hence, it is recom­mended to pay more attention to these variables in future research and planning.