Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Myrtle Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Myrtle Beach added 4,562 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.7%. In the latest year it moved by +756. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Myrtle Beach is 2.9 times that size.

Myrtle Beach covers 23.41 square miles of land and 0.28 of water, for 1,732 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Myrtle Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Myrtle Beach is in

All of Myrtle Beach's residents live in Horry County, which had 413,391 residents in 2024. Myrtle Beach holds 9.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Myrtle Beach

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Myrtle Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29572, 29577. 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 Myrtle Beach is

The Census internal point of Myrtle Beach is at 33.710400, -78.886000. Columbia, the capital, is 124.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Florence, SC (40,923 people), 61.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 66.9 miles away.

Daylight in Myrtle Beach

At 33.71° N, Myrtle Beach gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Myrtle Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Surfside Beach, 8.7 miles away, with 4,368 people.