#1Hardeeville
Jasper County7,527 in 2020·16,459 in 2025·+8,932 people
Hardeeville, #1 on this list · Photo: BeaufortTiger · Public domainSouth Carolina rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in South Carolina
Hardeeville has grown fastest of South Carolina’s 98 towns of 2,500+: up 118.7% from 7,527 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 16,459 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +5.7%; 27 of the 98 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+118.7%
#2Fort Mill
York County24,517 in 2020·38,673 in 2025·+14,156 people
#3Moncks Corner
Berkeley County13,311 in 2020·20,612 in 2025·+7,301 people
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What is the fastest-growing town in South Carolina?
Hardeeville (Jasper County): it grew 118.7%, from 7,527 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 16,459 in July 2025. Fort Mill (+57.7%) and Moncks Corner (+54.8%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (98 in South Carolina). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the South Carolina page.
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