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  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. 1. Location
    1. Counties and County Seats
  5. 2. Natural Landscape
    1. Landform Regions
    2. Earthquakes
      1. Fault Structures
    3. Land Cover
    4. Biodiversity and Conservation
      1. Land Under Conservation Protection
    5. Rivers, Lakes, and Bays
    6. Climate Regions
    7. Temperature and Precipitation
      1. Average Annual Precipitation
      2. Average Annual Maximum Temperature
      3. Average Annual Temperature
      4. Average Annual Minimum Temperature
    8. Tornadoes
    9. Hurricanes
    10. Changing Environment
      1. Increase in Average Overnight Lows
      2. Change In Extremely Hot Days
  6. 3. Early Human Landscape
    1. Native Americans, ca. 1670
      1. European Contact
  7. 4. Colonial Landscape
    1. Generalized Patterns of Colonial Agriculture
      1. Township System, 1731-1765
      2. Colonial Roads and Revolutionary War Engagements
    2. Colonial Roads, ca. 1770-1780
    3. Revolutionary War Engagements
  8. 5. Antebellum Landscape
    1. Population Change, 1800–1830
    2. Population Change, 1830–1860
      1. Agriculture and Industry, ca. 1840
    3. Agriculture
    4. Industry and Mining
      1. Slavery
    5. Year In Which Enslaved Population First Exceeded 50 Percent
    6. Enslaved, 1860
      1. Gullah Geechee Communities in Coastal South Carolina
      2. Canals and Railroads
    7. Canals, ca. 1825
    8. Railroads, ca. 1860
      1. Civil War
  9. 6. Postbellum Landscape
    1. Population, 1900
    2. Population, 1950
      1. Black Population 1900–1940
    3. Black Population, 1930
    4. Black Outmigration, 1930
      1. Tenancy and Tobacco
    5. Tenants As a Percent of Farm Operators, 1935
    6. Tobacco Production, 1930
      1. Textiles and Railroads
    7. Textile Mill Locations, 1908
    8. Railroads, 1925
      1. Civil Rights Era
  10. 7. Contemporary Landscape
    1. Population, 2020
    2. Population Change, 1970–2020
      1. Cities and Metropolitan Statistical Areas
    3. Cities
    4. Metropolitan Statistical Areas
      1. Population Born and Residing in South Carolina
      2. Race and Ethnicity
      3. Education
      4. Higher Education
      5. Military Landscape
      6. Agriculture
      7. Industry
      8. Transportation
      9. Energy Landscape
      10. State and National Parks
      11. Tourism
      12. Religion
      13. Religion
      14. Barbeque Regions
    5. Major Barbeque Sauce Types
      1. College Football
      2. Electoral Geography
    6. Polling Places Across South Carolina
    7. Election Results: 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
      1. Geographic Regions
  11. Tables
  12. Copyright Page

Page 49 →Tables

Population 1790–2020: Total, Rank, Change, and Density

Year

Total SC

Rank

Change (%)

Density per square mile

SC

USA

1790

249,073

7

n/a

n/a

8.3

1800

345,591

6

38.8

35.1

11.3

1810

415,115

6

20.1

36.4

13.6

1820

502,741

8

21.1

33.1

16.5

1830

581,185

9

15.6

33.5

19.1

1840

594,398

11

2.3

32.7

19.5

1850

668,507

14

12.5

35.9

21.9

1860

703,708

18

5.3

35.6

23.1

1870

705,606

22

0.3

22.6

23.1

1880

995,577

21

41.1

30.2

32.6

1890

1,151,149

23

15.6

25.5

37.7

1900

1,340,316

24

16.4

21.0

44.0

1910

1,515,400

26

13.1

21.0

49.7

1920

1,683,724

26

11.1

14.9

55.2

1930

1,738,765

26

3.3

16.1

57.0

1940

1,899,804

26

9.3

7.2

62.1

1950

2,117,027

27

11.4

14.5

69.9

1960

2,382,594

26

12.5

19.0

78.7

1970

2,590,713

26

8.7

13.3

85.7

1980

3,122,814

24

20.5

11.5

103.4

1990

3,486,703

25

11.7

9.8

115.8

2000

4,012,012

26

15.1

13.2

133.2

2010

4,625,364

24

15.3

9.7

153.9

2020

5,118,425

23

10.7

7.4

170.3

Population and Rank of Largest Incorporated Places: 2020

Place

Population

2010–2020 change (%)

2020 rank

2010 rank

Charleston

150,227

25.1

1

2

Columbia

136,632

5.7

2

1

North Charleston

114,852

17.8

3

3

Mount Pleasant

90,801

33.8

4

4

Rock Hill

74,372

12.4

5

5

Greenville

70,720

21.1

6

6

Summerville

50,915

17.3

7

7

Goose Creek

45,946

27.8

8

12

Sumter

43,463

7.3

9

8

Florence

39,899

7.7

10

10

Spartanburg

38,732

4.6

11

11

Hilton Head Island

37,661

1.5

12

9

Myrtle Beach

35,682

31.6

13

14

Greer

35,308

38.4

14

16

Aiken

32,025

8.5

15

13

Anderson

28,106

5.3

16

15

Bluffton

27,716

121.2

17

40

Conway

24,849

45.3

18

28

Mauldin

24,724

8.0

19

18

Fort Mill

24,521

126.8

20

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