Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island population, 2020 to 2024

Hilton Head Island added 572 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -5. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Hilton Head Island is 2.7 times that size.

Hilton Head Island covers 41.35 square miles of land and 27.78 of water, for 923 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Hilton Head Island is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hilton Head Island is in

All of Hilton Head Island's residents live in Beaufort County, which had 201,775 residents in 2024. Hilton Head Island holds 18.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hilton Head Island

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hilton Head Island by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 29926, 29928. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Hilton Head Island is

The Census internal point of Hilton Head Island is at 32.190300, -80.738400. Columbia, the capital, is 126.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Savannah, GA (148,808 people), 29.3 miles away.

Daylight in Hilton Head Island

At 32.19° N, Hilton Head Island gets about 14 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 13 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hilton Head Island

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Bluffton, 11.3 miles away, with 36,146 people.