11. Census Records for SC

Census Records for South Carolina are located in microfilm Drawers 199-205 (for 1790-1920), and Drawers 210-211 (for 1930).

The census are arranged in the drawers chronologically (every 10 years) from 1790-1930, and then by county within the census year.

Soundex Indexes for 1880-1930, precede the census year they index.

Microfilm Drawers 204-205 include the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules, and the Federal 1850-1880 Agriculture, Industry, Social Statistics, and Mortality Schedules, plus some surviving state population and agricultural census (for a list of surviving years and counties, see Steven D. Tuttle’s S. C. Archives guide, Census records at the Archives). Consult Map Key 2 for census indexes.