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Berkeley County, South Carolina
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Berkeley County is a county or county equivalent in South Carolina. Its five-digit FIPS code is 45015; preserve the leading zero when storing county codes as text. The Gazetteer lists 130.9 square miles of water and a representative point at 33.2077, -79.953655. That point identifies the geography; it is not a street address or a site boundary.
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Geography: 2025 U.S. Census Gazetteer. Population: Vintage 2025 estimates, July 1, 2025. County equivalents include parishes, boroughs, independent cities and planning regions. Puerto Rico population is not supplied by this population file.
Population is an estimate, not a live count. Gazetteer land and water measures describe the geographic area; they do not measure service availability, households, businesses or market demand. Match the FIPS code and source vintage when joining another dataset.
More county references in South Carolina
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14,188 residents · 2025 estimate