70,041 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.9% since 2020)
456 square miles of land · 154 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.
7 active community water systems list Greenwood County in the area they serve, reporting 58,460 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GREENWOOD CPW (2410001) surface water · local government · SC2410001 | 52,022 served |
| WARE SHOALS TOWN OF (SC2410003) buys surface water · local government · SC2410003 | 3,174 served |
| NINETY SIX CPW (SC2410002) buys surface water · local government · SC2410002 | 2,880 served |
| HYDE PARK S/D (SC2450001) groundwater · private · SC2450001 | 234 served |
| MATHEWS HEIGHTS (SC2450021) groundwater · private · SC2450021 | 73 served |
| MITCHELL MHP (SC2460001) groundwater · local government · SC2460001 | 43 served |
| COUNTRY ACRES (SC2450057) groundwater · private · SC2450057 | 34 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 184 people were held in Greenwood County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 424 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 204.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Greenwood County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $127.2 million — $116.5 million to run schools, about $13,530 per student, plus $6.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $39 million local (mostly property tax), $70.1 million state, $28.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $83.4 million.
Spent $21.7 million — $19.9 million to run schools, about $13,391 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.1 million local (mostly property tax), $11.4 million state, $4.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.8 million.
Spent $18.4 million — $13.2 million to run schools, about $14,804 per student, plus $5.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.1 million local (mostly property tax), $8.3 million state, $5.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $83,000.
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 Greenwood County about $27.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
144 bridges in Greenwood County: 32 in good condition, 109 fair, and 3 poor (2.1%). “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.
| S-24-285 over ROCKY CREEK · built 1962 | 2,800 vehicles a day |
| S-24-178 over BR BIG CURL TAIL CK · built 1957 | 1,600 vehicles a day |
| C-24-177 over REEDY BRANCH · built 1977 | 200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.9 million of work in Greenwood County in fiscal 2025, about $71 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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Abbeville County (19 mi) · McCormick County (21 mi) · Laurens County (24 mi) · Saluda County (25 mi) · Edgefield County (28 mi) · Lincoln County, GA (31 mi).