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Appendix 4 Urban / Rural County Designation

For the purpose of establishing the maximum payment rates paid by the Child Care Scholarship Program, each county is designated as either a rural or urban county. The maximum payment rates for urban counties are slightly higher than those for rural counties. A county is designated as either urban or rural based on specific criteria as identified by the SCDSS. The flowing urban/rural designations apply:

Urban Rural Aiken Greenville Abbeville Greenwood Saluda Allendale Horry Calhoun Hampton Union Anderson Lexington Chester Jasper Williamsburg Bamberg Marion Chesterfield Kershaw Barnwell Marlboro Clarendon Lancaster Beaufort Pickens Colleton Laurens Berkeley Richland Darlington Lee Charleston Spartanburg Dillon McCormick Cherokee Sumter Edgefield Newberry Dorchester York Fairfield Oconee Florence Georgetown Orangeburg