South Carolina · Census place 4500100

Abbeville, South Carolina

Abbeville is a city in Abbeville County, South Carolina with an estimated 4,870 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 68th largest of 152 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,870
#68 of 152 in South Carolina
Change since 2020
+0.3%
+13 people
Land area
6.2 sq mi
Density
783 / sq mi
State median 1,356
Orange pin: Abbeville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Columbia.

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Abbeville population, 2020 to 2024

Abbeville added 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by -6.

4,85720204,84820214,86120224,87620234,8702024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,866. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Abbeville covers 6.22 square miles of land, for 783 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Abbeville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Abbeville is in

All of Abbeville's residents live in Abbeville County, which had 24,607 residents in 2024. Abbeville holds 19.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Abbeville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Abbeville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29620. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Abbeville is

The Census internal point of Abbeville is at 34.178500, -82.377700. Columbia, the capital, is 77.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenwood, SC (22,667 people), 12.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Augusta-Richmond County, GA, 58.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
34.178500, -82.377700
DMS
34°10'42.60"N 82°22'39.72"W
UTM
17N 373034.6E 3782805.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
866V5JHC+CW

Daylight in Abbeville

At 34.18° N, Abbeville gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Abbeville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Due West, 10.8 miles away, with 1,292 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Abbeville, SC?

4,870 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 13 (0.3%) from 4,857 in July 2020.

What county is Abbeville in?

Abbeville County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Abbeville?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 29620.

How far is Abbeville from Columbia?

77.8 miles (125.2 km) in a straight line, heading E from Abbeville.

What is the nearest larger city to Abbeville?

Greenwood, SC, with 22,667 residents, 12.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

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