To investigate the status of dietary nutrients intake of the residents in Shunyi District, Beijing in 2015. Methods Using stratified cluster sampling method, Shunyi District was divided into urban and rural areas, according to the level of economic development and geographical location. Two communities or villages were randomly selected in each type of areas. Three hundred households and 817 objects were randomly selected from each community or village. All members of each household were investigated about food consumption, dietary nutrients intake and food sources of nutrition. Results The consumption of grain and egg was at the reasonable level, but the intake of potato, fruit, vegetable, soyabean and nut was low, only reached 60.8%, 52.3%, 83.0% and 63.2% of the recommended intake, respectively. Milk and aquatic product were far below the recommended values, only reached 16.8% and 34.3% of the recommended intake. Meat, edible oil and salt had exceeded the recommended values at 10.3%, 63.7% and 100.0%, respectively. Energy supply was basically adequate. There were 52.1%(426/817)、72.1%(589/817)、83.8%(685/817)、88.6%(724/817)、97.2%(794/817)、10.0%(82/817) and 45.9%(375/817) of the population with protein, vitamin A, B₁, B₂, calcium, iron and zinc deficiency, respectively. 91.6%(748/817) of the residents reached the appropriate level of sodium intake. The proportion of energy from fat should be reduced and the quality of protein be improved. Conclusion Unreasonable food consumption and deficient of some micronutrients might be the important factors influencing the health of Shunyi residents..