Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Mount Pleasant population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Pleasant added 4,353 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.8%. In the latest year it moved by +109. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Mount Pleasant is 6.8 times that size.

Mount Pleasant covers 49.66 square miles of land and 8.70 of water, for 1,925 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Mount Pleasant is denser than the typical town.

What county Mount Pleasant is in

All of Mount Pleasant's residents live in Charleston County, which had 431,001 residents in 2024. Mount Pleasant holds 22.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Pleasant

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mount Pleasant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 29464, 29466. 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 Mount Pleasant is

The Census internal point of Mount Pleasant is at 32.808400, -79.865000. Columbia, the capital, is 106.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Charleston, SC (157,665 people), 6.4 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Pleasant

At 32.81° N, Mount Pleasant gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Pleasant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Sullivan's Island, 3.3 miles away, with 1,948 people.