Forest Acres, South Carolina

Forest Acres population, 2020 to 2024

Forest Acres lost 183 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 60th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Forest Acres is 74% of it.

Forest Acres covers 4.63 square miles of land and 0.37 of water, for 2,254 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Forest Acres is denser than the typical town.

What county Forest Acres is in

All of Forest Acres's residents live in Richland County, which had 430,651 residents in 2024. Forest Acres holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest Acres

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Forest Acres by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29204, 29206. 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 Forest Acres is

The Census internal point of Forest Acres is at 34.033100, -80.973200. Columbia, the capital, is 4.2 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Columbia, SC (144,788 people), 3.9 miles away.

Daylight in Forest Acres

At 34.03° N, Forest Acres gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest Acres

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbia, 3.9 miles away, with 144,788 people.