Beaufort, South Carolina

Beaufort population, 2020 to 2024

Beaufort added 709 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +716. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Beaufort is 1.0 times that size.

Beaufort covers 24.51 square miles of land and 0.89 of water, for 585 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Beaufort is less dense than the typical town.

What county Beaufort is in

All of Beaufort's residents live in Beaufort County, which had 201,775 residents in 2024. Beaufort holds 7.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beaufort

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Beaufort by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29902, 29904, 29906, 29941. 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 Beaufort is

The Census internal point of Beaufort is at 32.458100, -80.722500. Columbia, the capital, is 108.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Port Royal, SC (16,507 people), 7.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Savannah, GA, 41.1 miles away.

Daylight in Beaufort

At 32.46° N, Beaufort gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beaufort

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Port Royal, 7.2 miles away, with 16,507 people.