Newberry County area

Population and density of Newberry County

The Census Bureau estimates that 39,561 people lived in Newberry County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,221 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #26 of 46 in South Carolina. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 37,716, the population has grown by 1,845 (+4.9%), compared with +8.8% for South Carolina as a whole.

With 630.3 square miles of land, that is 63 people per square mile (24 per km²), placing Newberry County #1,356 nationally for density and #26 in South Carolina. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the South Carolina median is 78. Put another way, there are about 10 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Newberry County

7 incorporated places lie at least partly in Newberry County. Together they are home to 14,244 people (36%); the other 25,317 (64%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Newberry city, with 10,891 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Prosperity town grew fastest since then (+6.6%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Newberry County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Newberry County is a central county of the Newberry, SC Micropolitan Statistical Area. Newberry County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 630.3 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #338 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #325 by population. It belongs to the Columbia-Sumter-Orangeburg, SC Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Newberry County; 9 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

2903629037290752910829122291262912729145291782933229355

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Newberry County

Newberry County shares a land border with 7 county equivalents. It has more land than 3 of them. The largest neighbor is Richland County (757.3 mi²) and the smallest is Saluda County (453.2 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Newberry County forms a block of 4,907.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 12.8%.

How big is Newberry County compared with U.S. states?

Newberry County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.6 times as much. South Carolina’s county land could hold about 48 areas the size of Newberry County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 25.1 miles (40.4 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Newberry County?

Newberry County has more land than 1,700 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Newberry County at #1,585 nationally by total area, 63 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 2.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 1.5 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Newberry County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.