Gaffney, South Carolina

Gaffney population, 2020 to 2024

Gaffney lost 192 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -1. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 59th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Gaffney is 89% of it.

Gaffney covers 9.07 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,383 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Gaffney is close to the typical town.

What county Gaffney is in

All of Gaffney's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 57,770 residents in 2024. Gaffney holds 21.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gaffney

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gaffney by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29340, 29341. 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 Gaffney is

The Census internal point of Gaffney is at 35.073600, -81.661500. Columbia, the capital, is 82.2 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shelby, NC (22,778 people), 16.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 47.8 miles away.

Daylight in Gaffney

At 35.07° N, Gaffney gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gaffney

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Blacksburg, 8.8 miles away, with 1,954 people.