Census Records at the SC Archives

As you begin to gather information about your family, census records are one of the first sources you should consult. What follows in the links on the left will give you an overview of the South Carolina census schedules we have at the Archives and will tell you how to access the information in these records.

The federal government releases census records for public use seventy-two years after enumeration. The Archives has federal population schedules from 1790 to 1930, supplementary schedules from 1850 to 1880, and some special federal schedules and publications from 1790 to 1840.

The Archives also has the following state census records:

• population schedules for some counties for 1829, 1839, 1869, and 1875
  
  
• agricultural schedules for some counties for 1868 and 1875.