Travelers Rest, South Carolina

Travelers Rest population, 2020 to 2024

Travelers Rest added 1,141 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.6%. In the latest year it moved by +210. Among 66 South Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +4.9%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Carolina has 14,078 people, so Travelers Rest is 64% of it.

Travelers Rest covers 6.24 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,436 people per square mile of land. The median South Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,356, so Travelers Rest is close to the typical town.

What county Travelers Rest is in

All of Travelers Rest's residents live in Greenville County, which had 570,745 residents in 2024. Travelers Rest holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Travelers Rest

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Travelers Rest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 29613, 29617, 29690. 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 Travelers Rest is

The Census internal point of Travelers Rest is at 34.960000, -82.445000. Columbia, the capital, is 104.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenville, SC (74,371 people), 9.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Athens-Clarke County, GA, 87.5 miles away.

Daylight in Travelers Rest

At 34.96° N, Travelers Rest gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Travelers Rest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenville, 9.7 miles away, with 74,371 people.