Lake City, South Carolina

Lake City population, 2020 to 2024

Lake City lost 114 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -38. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Lake City is 42% of it.

Lake City covers 5.44 square miles of land, for 1,088 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Lake City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake City is in

All of Lake City's residents live in Florence County, which had 138,049 residents in 2024. Lake City holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29560. 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 Lake City is

The Census internal point of Lake City is at 33.867700, -79.753900. Columbia, the capital, is 74.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Florence, SC (40,923 people), 21.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbia, SC, 67.1 miles away.

Daylight in Lake City

At 33.87° N, Lake City gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Pamplico, 13.7 miles away, with 1,061 people.