Port Royal, South Carolina

Port Royal population, 2020 to 2024

Port Royal added 1,926 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.2%. In the latest year it moved by +158. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Port Royal is 1.2 times that size.

Port Royal covers 17.01 square miles of land and 2.59 of water, for 970 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Port Royal is less dense than the typical town.

What county Port Royal is in

All of Port Royal's residents live in Beaufort County, which had 201,775 residents in 2024. Port Royal holds 8.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Port Royal

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Port Royal by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 29902, 29905, 29906, 29935. 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 Port Royal is

The Census internal point of Port Royal is at 32.355400, -80.700300. Columbia, the capital, is 115.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hilton Head Island, SC (38,158 people), 11.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Savannah, GA, 37.2 miles away.

Daylight in Port Royal

At 32.36° N, Port Royal gets about 14 h 17 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 02 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 15 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Port Royal

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Beaufort, 7.2 miles away, with 14,334 people.