Greenwood, SC Micro Area

The Greenwood, SC micro area is made up of 2 counties in South Carolina: Greenwood and Abbeville. About 95,215 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.7% more than in April 2020.

Abbeville County, outlyingGreenwood County, centralGreenwood
Central Outlying 2 counties in South Carolina
Population, July 2025
95,215 1.7% more than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
Counties
2: 1 central, 1 outlying
Land area
947 sq mi (2,452 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
South Carolina
Combined statistical area
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC
CBSA code
24940

Counties in the Greenwood, SC micro area, largest first

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025Share of the area
Greenwood CountyCentral70,37973.9%
Abbeville CountyOutlying24,83626.1%

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. An outlying county is in the area because of commuting: at least a quarter of its workers have jobs in the central county, or at least a quarter of the people working there live in them. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Greenwood22,536 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 4 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC Metro Area1,014,101 people
  2. Spartanburg, SC Metro Area407,656 people
  3. Seneca, SC Micro Area83,775 people
  4. Gaffney, SC Micro Area58,275 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Newberry, SC Micro Area32 mi east
  2. Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC Metro Area46 mi north
  3. Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area58 mi south
  4. Columbia, SC Metro Area72 mi east

Before using this answer on a form

A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

Find the metro area where you are now, find your county, or see every metro and micro area by population.

See this area on Census.gov ↗