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South Carolina: births, delivery capacity and legal capacity

By Kevin Schwaner, Founder; Chief Marketing OfficerUpdated

South Carolina recorded 57,999 births in 2024 across 46 counties, served by 36 hospitals confirmed to provide inpatient labour and delivery, with 3 more whose status CMS does not report. There are 2,585 Offices of Lawyers establishments statewide, across all practice areas.

Births, 2024
57,999+3.9% since 2021
Delivering hospitals
363 more not reported
Offices of Lawyers
2,585CBP 2023, NAICS 541110, all practice areas
Births per lawyer office
22.4national median for 500+ birth counties: 34.3

Births by county

Births by county in South Carolina, 2024A choropleth of South Carolina counties shaded by births recorded in 2024.
Births, 2024 ≤ 128 > 4,150

Figure 1. Hover any county for births, lawyer offices and delivering hospitals. Projected at build time; no mapping library on this page.

South Carolina births, 2021 to 2024. Four-year births series for South Carolina alongside the national total. South Carolina 57,999 +3.9% 2021→2024 United States 3,605,563 +0.6% 2021→2024 Delivering hospitals 36 +0.0% 2024 only Lawyer offices 2,585 +0.0% CBP 2023
Figure 2 — South Carolina against the national series. Only the first two series are time series; the third and fourth are single-vintage values shown flat, and are labelled as such rather than being interpolated into a trend. National births detail. Sources: Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 county population estimates (components of change), released June 2025; Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 541110 Offices of Lawyers, released May 2025; CMS Care Compare, Maternal Health · Hospital, reporting period 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2024.

Every county

All 46 counties in South Carolina. Sorted by births. Copy it into a spreadsheet — it is a real table.
CountyPopulation 2024Births 2024Lawyer officesBirths per officeDelivering hospitalsStatus unknown
Greenville County570,7456,38536117.731
Charleston County431,0014,96549610.040
Richland County430,6514,42539711.120
Spartanburg County369,2564,1079244.620
Lexington County313,7743,31811728.420
Horry County413,3913,28619117.240
York County303,0013,21011627.710
Berkeley County264,2763,0356844.600
Aiken County179,2452,4264455.110
Anderson County217,1832,3565542.810
Dorchester County174,6632,0436034.110
Beaufort County201,7751,86615312.221
Florence County138,0491,5555627.820
Sumter County104,7761,3023043.410
Pickens County138,2071,2341488.100
Lancaster County111,6521,2231771.910
Orangeburg County83,1298392830.000
Kershaw County71,6987881746.410
Darlington County62,4257271840.410
Laurens County70,545727980.800
Greenwood County70,0417222825.810
Oconee County82,4757141644.610
Cherokee County57,770605967.200
Chesterfield County44,488516864.500
Georgetown County66,035473529.100
Newberry County39,2034181138.010
Colleton County39,2594051921.310
Jasper County35,618404667.310
Dillon County27,577346749.410
Chester County32,323326481.500
Williamsburg County29,865287835.900
Clarendon County31,030286835.810
Marion County28,368286647.700
Saluda County19,4522630undefined00
Marlboro County25,498261465.300
Barnwell County20,4952471122.500
Edgefield County29,455238547.600
Union County26,678236378.700
Abbeville County24,607216372.000
Hampton County18,1722021811.200
Fairfield County20,369172628.700
Lee County15,958169356.300
Calhoun County14,249131343.700
Bamberg County12,870120524.000
Allendale County7,55175325.001
McCormick County9,983640undefined00

22 counties record births with no confirmed delivering hospital, covering 10,647 births. As on the national page, this describes where facilities sit relative to where births are recorded by residence — not access to care.

Hospitals with obstetric services

39 South Carolina hospitals reporting an obstetric service status. Facilities confirming they do not provide labour and delivery are excluded from this table and counted on the national page.
HospitalCityCountyOwnershipLabour & deliveryBirthing Friendly
Aiken Regional Medical CenterAikenAikenProprietaryYesDesignated
Allendale County HospitalFairfaxAllendaleGovernment - LocalNot reported—
Anmed HealthAndersonAndersonVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Beaufort County Memorial HospitalBeaufortBeaufortGovernment - LocalYesDesignated
Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier HospitalCharlestonCharlestonVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Carolina Pines Regional Medical CenterHartsvilleDarlingtonProprietaryYesDesignated
Coastal Carolina HospitalHardeevilleJasperProprietaryYesDesignated
Colleton Medical CenterWalterboroColletonProprietaryYesDesignated
Conway Medical CenterConwayHorryVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Grand Strand Regional Medical CenterMyrtle BeachHorryProprietaryYesDesignated
KershawhealthCamdenKershawProprietaryYesDesignated
Lexington Medical CenterWest ColumbiaLexingtonVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Mcleod Health ClarendonManningClarendonVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Mcleod Loris HospitalLorisHorryVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Mcleod Medical Center - DillonDillonDillonVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Mcleod Regional Medical Center-Pee DeeFlorenceFlorenceVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Musc Health Florence Medical CenterFlorenceFlorenceGovernment - StateYesDesignated
Musc Health Lancaster Medical CenterLancasterLancasterProprietaryYesDesignated
Musc Medical CenterCharlestonCharlestonGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityYesDesignated
Newberry County Memorial HospitalNewberryNewberryVoluntary non-profit - OtherYesDesignated
Nh BeaufortBeaufortBeaufortDepartment of DefenseNot reported—
Novant Health East Cooper Medical CenterMount PleasantCharlestonProprietaryYesDesignated
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical CenterHilton Head IslandBeaufortVoluntary non-profit - OtherYesDesignated
Piedmont Medical CenterRock HillYorkProprietaryYesDesignated
Prisma Health Patewood HospitalGreenvilleGreenvilleVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health BaptistColumbiaRichlandVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health Baptist ParkridgeColumbiaLexingtonVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health Greenville Memorial HospitalGreenvilleGreenvilleVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health Greer Memorial HospitalSpartanburgSpartanburgVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial HospitalSenecaOconeeVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health Richland HospitalColumbiaRichlandVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Prisma Health Tuomey HospitalSumterSumterVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Roper St Francis Hospital-Berkeley IncSummervilleDorchesterVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Self Regional HealthcareGreenwoodGreenwoodVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Shriners Hospitals For ChildrenGreenvilleGreenvilleVoluntary non-profit - PrivateNot reported—
Spartanburg Medical CenterSpartanburgSpartanburgGovernment - Hospital District or AuthorityYesDesignated
St Francis-DowntownGreenvilleGreenvilleVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Tidelands Waccamaw Community HospitalMurrells InletHorryVoluntary non-profit - PrivateYesDesignated
Trident Medical CenterCharlestonCharlestonProprietaryYesDesignated

Birthing Friendly is a CMS designation reflecting a hospital's attestation to participating in a perinatal quality improvement collaborative and implementing recommended safety practices. It records reported structure and participation. It is not an outcome measure, and CMS published no obstetric outcome scores at all for 2024 — see the blackout.

A limit we will not cross. Nothing on this page links a clinical outcome rate to a legal claim. Adverse-event rates measure medicine. Litigation measures a legal process. They are different quantities, they are collected by different agencies for different reasons, and correlating them would be the fastest way to publish something false. Where we present clinical data and legal data together, it is to describe a market — never to imply that one causes, predicts, or justifies the other.

Sources

  1. U.S. Census Bureau — County Population Totals and Components of Change, Vintage 2024 — births by county, 2021–2024
  2. U.S. Census Bureau — County Business Patterns, 2023 — NAICS 541110, Offices of Lawyers; establishment counts by county
  3. CMS Care Compare — Maternal Health · Hospital — PC-02, PC-07a, PC-07b, SM-7; 2024 reporting period
  4. CMS Care Compare — Hospital General Information — ownership, facility type, Birthing Friendly designation
  5. U.S. Census Bureau — Cartographic Boundary Files, 2023 (1:20,000,000) — county and state polygons; projected to Albers equal-area at build time

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Birth Injury Marketing. “South Carolina: births, delivery capacity and legal capacity.” 24 August 2026. https://birthinjurymarketing.com/intelligence/south-carolina/

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