Bluffton, South Carolina

Bluffton population, 2020 to 2024

Bluffton added 7,822 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +27.6%. In the latest year it moved by +916. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Bluffton is 2.6 times that size.

Bluffton covers 52.13 square miles of land and 2.40 of water, for 693 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Bluffton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bluffton is in

All of Bluffton's residents live in Beaufort County, which had 201,775 residents in 2024. Bluffton holds 17.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bluffton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bluffton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 29910. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bluffton is

The Census internal point of Bluffton is at 32.214400, -80.929500. Columbia, the capital, is 123.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hilton Head Island, SC (38,158 people), 11.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Savannah, GA, 20.7 miles away.

Daylight in Bluffton

At 32.21° N, Bluffton gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bluffton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Hardeeville, 8.6 miles away, with 13,862 people.