Goose Creek, South Carolina

Goose Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Goose Creek added 4,092 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.8%. In the latest year it moved by +923. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 24th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Goose Creek is 3.6 times that size.

Goose Creek covers 43.38 square miles of land and 0.49 of water, for 1,161 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Goose Creek is less dense than the typical town.

What county Goose Creek is in

All of Goose Creek's residents live in Berkeley County, which had 264,276 residents in 2024. Goose Creek holds 19.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Goose Creek

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Goose Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29445. 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 Goose Creek is

The Census internal point of Goose Creek is at 32.994900, -80.009200. Columbia, the capital, is 91.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Charleston, SC (126,005 people), 6.2 miles away.

Daylight in Goose Creek

At 32.99° N, Goose Creek gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Goose Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Hanahan, 4.4 miles away, with 21,983 people.