Bennettsville, South Carolina

Bennettsville population, 2020 to 2024

Bennettsville lost 394 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -105. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 66th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Bennettsville is 54% of it.

Bennettsville covers 6.18 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 1,229 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Bennettsville is close to the typical town.

What county Bennettsville is in

All of Bennettsville's residents live in Marlboro County, which had 25,498 residents in 2024. Bennettsville holds 29.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bennettsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bennettsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29512. 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 Bennettsville is

The Census internal point of Bennettsville is at 34.628200, -79.686000. Columbia, the capital, is 88.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Laurinburg, NC (15,130 people), 15.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 51.2 miles away.

Daylight in Bennettsville

At 34.63° N, Bennettsville gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bennettsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is McColl, 8.5 miles away, with 1,976 people.