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South Carolina: county data, all 46 of them.

Every South Carolina county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the South Carolina statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
46
Population
5,296,225
Land area
30,058 sq mi
Establishments
122,086
Combined county GDP
$357.07 bn
SBA approvals recorded
5,148

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the South Carolina legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for South Carolina, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write South Carolina zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 46 South Carolina county-equivalents.

South Carolina counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Abbeville County24,420$52,935343$846.1 m11490
Aiken County174,160$70,6093,067$10.36 bn1201,071
Allendale County7,661$32,328125$398.3 m2408
Anderson County210,478$66,6514,160$10.56 bn183715
Bamberg County13,042$44,370248$510.4 m5393
Barnwell County20,521$46,626353$700.8 m6548
Beaufort County195,289$86,5736,087$12.87 bn295576
Berkeley County246,802$84,3584,230$14.30 bn2251,099
Calhoun County14,182$58,682242$910.9 m11381
Charleston County420,264$88,49415,801$50.46 bn675916
Cherokee County56,647$50,288935$2.34 bn22393
Chester County32,182$52,458560$1.82 bn11581
Chesterfield County43,784$49,235690$1.90 bn16799
Clarendon County30,986$52,401497$962.5 m9607
Colleton County38,783$51,114793$1.50 bn281,056
Darlington County62,558$48,5811,121$3.42 bn16561
Dillon County27,862$46,605495$1.04 bn6405
Dorchester County167,201$78,1982,861$6.71 bn132573
Edgefield County27,476$73,029355$893.9 m12500
Fairfield County20,550$47,885331$1.42 bn12686
Florence County137,117$58,3053,282$9.98 bn85800
Georgetown County64,811$68,7132,038$4.02 bn48814
Greenville County548,166$76,93215,493$48.74 bn851785
Greenwood County69,489$52,8301,354$4.90 bn30455
Hampton County18,254$44,711318$692.4 m5560
Horry County383,016$66,88010,550$22.77 bn3491,134
Jasper County32,166$65,613838$2.15 bn55655
Kershaw County68,314$68,2311,208$3.42 bn41727
Lancaster County104,475$78,8691,769$5.25 bn107549
Laurens County68,666$57,623985$2.91 bn54714
Lee County16,166$44,760212$507.3 m6410
Lexington County304,887$77,4087,391$19.75 bn318699
Marion County28,664$36,301489$900.7 m7489
Marlboro County25,975$34,301305$965.2 m10480
McCormick County9,760$55,798105$330.7 m2359
Newberry County38,435$61,780781$2.03 bn31630
Oconee County80,469$62,3881,761$5.24 bn62626
Orangeburg County83,253$45,6751,630$4.01 bn391,106
Pickens County134,629$61,0642,254$6.02 bn122496
Richland County422,117$63,7849,426$37.44 bn381757
Saluda County19,131$51,009257$643.2 m10453
Spartanburg County347,852$66,2347,399$22.98 bn318808
Sumter County104,725$56,6931,833$6.29 bn46665
Union County26,885$41,621418$904.8 m7514
Williamsburg County30,282$46,213465$1.07 bn8934
York County293,673$89,0956,231$19.23 bn359681

The register

Every source behind these 46 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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