Georgetown, South Carolina

Georgetown population, 2020 to 2024

Georgetown added 440 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by +106. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Georgetown is 63% of it.

Georgetown covers 6.99 square miles of land and 0.59 of water, for 1,262 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Georgetown is close to the typical town.

What county Georgetown is in

All of Georgetown's residents live in Georgetown County, which had 66,035 residents in 2024. Georgetown holds 13.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Georgetown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Georgetown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29440. 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 Georgetown is

The Census internal point of Georgetown is at 33.372400, -79.280800. Columbia, the capital, is 109.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Myrtle Beach, SC (40,535 people), 32.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charleston, SC, 54.9 miles away.

Daylight in Georgetown

At 33.37° N, Georgetown gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Georgetown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Andrews, 17.3 miles away, with 2,530 people.