Saluda, South Carolina

Saluda population, 2020 to 2024

Saluda lost 19 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

Saluda covers 3.25 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 942 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Saluda is less dense than the typical town.

What county Saluda is in

All of Saluda's residents live in Saluda County, which had 19,452 residents in 2024. Saluda holds 15.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Saluda

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Saluda by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 29138. 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 Saluda is

The Census internal point of Saluda is at 34.001200, -81.771600. Columbia, the capital, is 42.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Batesburg-Leesville, SC (5,321 people), 15.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Augusta-Richmond County, GA, 47.2 miles away.

Daylight in Saluda

At 34.00° N, Saluda 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 Saluda

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Johnston, 11.7 miles away, with 2,214 people.