Charleston, South Carolina

Current Weather

The city of Charleston is primarily located in Berkeley County and is the county seat. A portion of Charleston extends into Charleston County.

Charleston is near sea level^<1>.

Time Zone: Charleston lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Charleston can be found in:

At the time of the 2000 Census, Charleston had a population of 96,650 people^<3> (or 67.47% of the total population of Berkeley County). The population of Charleston represented 2.41% of the total of South Carolina, making it the state's 2nd most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Charleston had a population of 111,978 people. This is an increase of 15.86% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Charleston.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance<4>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Folly Beach	S	10 mi [16.09 km]	2,412	13.99% increase
	Goose Creek	N	13 mi [20.92 km]	37,900	29.76% increase
	Hanahan	N	8 mi [12.87 km]	16,065	24.18% increase
	Hollywood	W	15 mi [24.14 km]	4,398	11.45% increase
	Isle-of-Palms	E	11 mi [17.7 km]	4,678	2.07% increase
	Mount Pleasant	E	7 mi [11.27 km]	65,472	37.52% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Charleston.

Websites for Charleston

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Charleston or Berkeley County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.

The Commemorative Quarter for South Carolina<5>

Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Charleston. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

Other Roadside Stops

Off-the-Road Links

Footnotes