Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston population, 2020 to 2024

Charleston added 6,600 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.4%. In the latest year it moved by +1,402. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Charleston is 11.2 times that size.

Charleston covers 115.25 square miles of land and 20.87 of water, for 1,368 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Charleston is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Charleston spans

Charleston crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 157,665 residents as follows; Charleston County holds 89.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Charleston

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Charleston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29401, 29403, 29407, 29409, 29412, 29414, 29424, 29425, 29455, 29492. 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 Charleston is

The Census internal point of Charleston is at 32.828000, -79.972900. Columbia, the capital, is 101.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Augusta-Richmond County, GA (201,737 people), 127.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is North Charleston, SC, 8.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 1 m (3 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Charleston

At 32.83° N, Charleston gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Charleston daylight page.

Places near Charleston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Pleasant, 6.4 miles away, with 95,604 people.