Aiken, South Carolina

Aiken population, 2020 to 2024

Aiken added 536 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -254. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Aiken is 2.3 times that size.

Aiken covers 21.75 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,503 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Aiken is denser than the typical town.

What county Aiken is in

All of Aiken's residents live in Aiken County, which had 179,245 residents in 2024. Aiken holds 18.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Aiken

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Aiken by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29801, 29803. 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 Aiken is

The Census internal point of Aiken is at 33.531600, -81.725100. Columbia, the capital, is 51.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Augusta-Richmond County, GA (201,737 people), 23.1 miles away.

Daylight in Aiken

At 33.53° N, Aiken gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Aiken

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Burnettown, 8.1 miles away, with 3,226 people.