South Carolina ZIP Codes: Ranges, Prefixes and Major Cities
Whether you are building an address form, cleaning a mailing list or testing shipping rules, it helps to know how ZIP codes work in South Carolina. The state has 534 active codes spread across 46 counties.
ZIP code range and prefixes
Every South Carolina ZIP code starts with one of 10 three-digit prefixes. Each prefix points to a sectional center facility, the processing plant that sorts mail for a group of nearby post offices.
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Types of ZIP codes in South Carolina
| Type | Count | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 376 | Street delivery areas |
| PO Box | 131 | Post office boxes only |
| Unique | 27 | A single high-volume organization |
ZIP codes for major South Carolina cities
| City | County | Standard ZIPs | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia | Richland County | 11 | 29201–29229 |
| Charleston | Charleston County | 7 | 29401–29492 |
| Greenville | Greenville County | 7 | 29601–29617 |
| Myrtle Beach | Horry County | 5 | 29572–29588 |
| Spartanburg | Spartanburg County | 5 | 29301–29307 |
| Anderson | Anderson County | 4 | 29621–29626 |
| Aiken | Aiken County | 3 | 29801–29805 |
| Beaufort | Beaufort County | 3 | 29902–29907 |
| Florence | Florence County | 3 | 29501–29506 |
| Fort Mill | York County | 3 | 29707–29715 |
| North Charleston | Charleston County | 3 | 29405–29420 |
| Rock Hill | York County | 3 | 29730–29734 |
| Summerville | Dorchester County | 3 | 29483–29486 |
| Sumter | Sumter County | 3 | 29150–29154 |
| West Columbia | Lexington County | 3 | 29169–29172 |
Columbia is the state capital. Larger cities have many ZIP codes because each code follows mail delivery routes, not city limits.
Sample addresses
Noah King
9397 Church Way
Sumter, SC 29153
Michelle Nguyen
2084 Orchard Way
North Charleston, SC 29405
Jessica Wright
5181 Chestnut Dr
Beaufort, SC 29902
These examples use real city and ZIP pairs with invented street lines, so they are safe for testing and documentation.
Tips for working with these ZIP codes
- Store ZIP codes as text, not numbers, so the format stays consistent across states with leading zeros.
- All of South Carolina is in the Eastern time zone, which keeps scheduling logic simple.
- A quick sanity check: a valid SC ZIP code begins with one of the prefixes listed above.
- City names in addresses are post office names. A suburb may share a ZIP code and city name with a nearby larger town.
Create realistic South Carolina addresses for testing, with real cities, counties and ZIP codes.
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