44,488 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.9% since 2020)
799 square miles of land · 56 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
9 active community water systems list Chesterfield County in the area they serve, reporting 44,266 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CHESTERFIELD CO RURAL WATER (SC1320003) buys surface water · local government · SC1320003 | 25,691 served |
| CHERAW TOWN OF (SC1310001) surface water · local government · SC1310001 | 6,325 served |
| ALLIGATOR RURAL WATER groundwater · local government · SC1320004 | 4,743 served |
| PAGELAND TOWN OF surface water · local government · SC1310003 | 3,467 served |
| CHESTERFIELD TOWN OF (1310002) buys groundwater · local government · SC1310002 | 1,670 served |
| MCBEE TOWN OF (SC1310004) buys groundwater · local government · SC1310004 | 1,239 served |
| JEFFERSON TOWN OF (SC1310005) buys groundwater · local government · SC1310005 | 948 served |
| COUNTRY VILLAGE MHP (SC1360008) groundwater · private · SC1360008 | 96 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 71 people were held in Chesterfield County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 259 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 80.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Chesterfield County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $98 million — $92.5 million to run schools, about $13,181 per student, plus $3.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $30.9 million local (mostly property tax), $58.3 million state, $19.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $47.9 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Chesterfield County about $22.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
201 bridges in Chesterfield County: 75 in good condition, 118 fair, and 8 poor (4.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| US 1 over S.C.L. RAILROAD · built 1962 | 4,100 vehicles a day |
| S-13-42 over LYNCHES RIVER · built 1977 | 850 vehicles a day |
| S-13-45 over ROCKY CREEK · built 1979 | 550 vehicles a day |
| S-13-80 over HARRIS CREEK · built 1961 | 375 vehicles a day |
| S-13-22 over MOUNT PRONG CREEK · built 1988 | 200 vehicles a day |
| S-13-130 over CLAY CREEK · built 1961 | 125 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.1 million of work in Chesterfield County in fiscal 2025, about $280 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for South Carolina are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Chesterfield County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Chesterfield County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Anson County, NC (23 mi) · Darlington County (24 mi) · Marlboro County (27 mi) · Lancaster County (31 mi) · Kershaw County (32 mi) · Union County, NC (32 mi).