Septic records and services in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

In Beaufort County, South Carolina, which covers Hilton Head Island, we have measured 25,673 parcels on septic and 22,873 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Hilton Head Island on its own and this page does not estimate one.

What Hilton Head Island is, in the records

Hilton Head Island is a town in Beaufort County, South Carolina. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 32.190307, -80.738434 and its land area at 41.35 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the town level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.

What we hold for the county that covers Hilton Head Island

We have not yet collected septic documents from Beaufort County, South Carolina, so for a Hilton Head Island property the county's own file is currently the only route. This page is about getting you to it, not about pretending we hold something we do not. The county is genuinely mixed: 25,673 of 48,546 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Hilton Head Island address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. We have not found a published online records portal for this county, which means the file is requested from the county directly rather than searched.

Start from who you are

Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.

Questions people ask

Does Parcel Perfect have a septic count for Hilton Head Island?

No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Beaufort County, South Carolina, which covers Hilton Head Island, we have measured 25,673 parcels on septic and 22,873 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Hilton Head Island on its own and this page does not estimate one.

Which county is Hilton Head Island in?

Hilton Head Island is in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

Records and services around Hilton Head Island

• Beaufort County septic records — what we hold, and where the county keeps the originals
• South Carolina septic regulations — the rules that actually bind here, which no page on this site restates from memory
• South Carolina septic records index

ZIP codes that overlap Hilton Head Island

From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Hilton Head Island’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.

• ZIP 29928 (50% of the town)
• ZIP 29926 (50% of the town)

Nearest other places

Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Hilton Head Island.

• Daufuskie Island — 8.9 mi
• Bluffton — 11.3 mi
• Port Royal — 11.6 mi
• Shell Point — 12.8 mi
• Burton — 16.2 mi
• Fripp Island — 17.3 mi
• Beaufort — 18.5 mi
• Laurel Bay — 18.8 mi
• Hardeeville — 19.1 mi
• Ridgeland — 22.0 mi
• Harbor Island — 23.1 mi
• Seabrook — 23.8 mi
• Lobeco — 24.9 mi
• Dale — 25.3 mi
• Sheldon — 28.2 mi
• Coosawhatchie — 29.7 mi
• Edisto Beach — 32.7 mi
• Gillisonville — 32.9 mi
• Yemassee — 34.3 mi
• Seabrook Island — 42.0 mi
• Rockville — 42.8 mi
• Furman — 42.9 mi
• Jacksonboro — 43.0 mi
• Adams Run — 43.3 mi
• Meggett — 44.5 mi
• Scotia — 44.9 mi
• Estill — 48.5 mi
• Walterboro — 49.3 mi

Get the septic design for a property here

Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

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