Population
5,570,274
2025
+8.5% since 2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program (Vintage 2025), 2025. Resident population, July 1 estimate.
South Carolina county growth data
Population, jobs, wages, unemployment, new homes and household income for all 46 counties in South Carolina, from public federal data, with the source of every number.
Data as of 2025 · updated
Statewide totals
Net domestic migration
+66,622
2025
12.0 per 1,000 residents
+364,272 in total, 2021–2025
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program (Vintage 2025), 2025. People moving in from other U.S. counties minus people moving out.
Jobs
2,192,000
2025
+11.6% since 2020
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025. Average annual employment covered by unemployment insurance.
New homes permitted
45,862
2025
−9.5% since 2021
8.2 per 1,000 residents
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2025. Housing units authorized by building permits in the year.
Private-sector employment
1,867,221
2023
+8.2% since 2018
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. Paid employees of private employers in mid-March (County Business Patterns).
Fastest-growing counties
- Jasper County, SCpop +32.2% · jobs +15.6%
- Horry County, SCpop +20.9% · jobs +19.6%
- Berkeley County, SCpop +18.7% · jobs +27.7%
- Lancaster County, SCpop +18.3% · jobs +15.0%
- Edgefield County, SCpop +16.1% · jobs +18.7%
- Spartanburg County, SCpop +15.6% · jobs +9.0%
- Kershaw County, SCpop +11.6% · jobs +10.6%
- Greenville County, SCpop +10.6% · jobs +14.3%
- Dorchester County, SCpop +10.1% · jobs +21.2%
- Beaufort County, SCpop +8.8% · jobs +11.6%
All 46 counties
- Abbeville County
- Aiken County
- Allendale County
- Anderson County
- Bamberg County
- Barnwell County
- Beaufort County
- Berkeley County
- Calhoun County
- Charleston County
- Cherokee County
- Chester County
- Chesterfield County
- Clarendon County
- Colleton County
- Darlington County
- Dillon County
- Dorchester County
- Edgefield County
- Fairfield County
- Florence County
- Georgetown County
- Greenville County
- Greenwood County
- Hampton County
- Horry County
- Jasper County
- Kershaw County
- Lancaster County
- Laurens County
- Lee County
- Lexington County
- Marion County
- Marlboro County
- McCormick County
- Newberry County
- Oconee County
- Orangeburg County
- Pickens County
- Richland County
- Saluda County
- Spartanburg County
- Sumter County
- Union County
- Williamsburg County
- York County
Metro areas
- Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
- Charleston-North Charleston, SC
- Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
- Columbia, SC
- Florence, SC
- Gaffney, SC
- Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC
- Greenwood, SC
- Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC
- Murrells Inlet, SC
- Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC
- Newberry, SC
- Orangeburg, SC
- Seneca, SC
- Spartanburg, SC
- Sumter, SC
Fastest-growing metro areas in South Carolina · Fastest-growing metro areas in the U.S. · Largest metro areas in South Carolina
Questions
Is South Carolina growing?
South Carolina as a whole grew 8.5% between 2020 and 2025, to 5,570,274 residents. Statewide figures add up its counties (Census Bureau population estimates).
What is the fastest-growing county in South Carolina?
Jasper County, SC, which grew 32.2% between 2020 and 2025 to 38,533 residents (Census Bureau population estimates).
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Sources and method
- U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program (Vintage 2025)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
- U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey
- U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns
Each number shows its own period. Changes compare the latest period with five years earlier (or the earliest period available). Beacon CRE last refreshed these figures on 2026-11-05. Figures come from public federal statistics and are informational only, not investment advice. Check the source before relying on a number. Methodology: how we compute every number. More on every layer: data sources and licences.