Greenwood, South Carolina

Greenwood population, 2020 to 2024

Greenwood added 109 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +112. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 52nd; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Greenwood is 1.6 times that size.

Greenwood covers 16.69 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,358 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Greenwood is close to the typical town.

What county Greenwood is in

All of Greenwood's residents live in Greenwood County, which had 70,041 residents in 2024. Greenwood holds 32.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greenwood

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Greenwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29646, 29649. 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 Greenwood is

The Census internal point of Greenwood is at 34.195400, -82.153700. Columbia, the capital, is 65.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anderson, SC (30,937 people), 35.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Augusta-Richmond County, GA, 57.5 miles away.

Daylight in Greenwood

At 34.20° N, Greenwood gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Greenwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Ninety Six, 7.7 miles away, with 2,075 people.