Lexington, South Carolina

Lexington population, 2020 to 2024

Lexington added 1,701 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.2%. In the latest year it moved by +414. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Lexington is 1.8 times that size.

Lexington covers 11.97 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 2,118 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Lexington is denser than the typical town.

What county Lexington is in

All of Lexington's residents live in Lexington County, which had 313,774 residents in 2024. Lexington holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lexington

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lexington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 29072. 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 Lexington is

The Census internal point of Lexington is at 33.992900, -81.221800. Columbia, the capital, is 10.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Columbia, SC (144,788 people), 18.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lexington

At 33.99° N, Lexington gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lexington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Springdale, 6.7 miles away, with 2,756 people.