Equipment rental in Charleston

Name: Equipment Rental Compare Equipment Rental Index: Charleston, SC
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Published: 2026-09-10
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The Census Bureau counts 20 equipment rental establishments in Charleston.

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Only a few rental establishments are counted here, so widen the search to South Carolina: rental yards deliver, and a yard one county over will quote the same machine. A low count is a fact about the county, not about what you can rent.

equipment rental establishments: 20
construction and mining machinery yards: 10
general rental centers: 10

How this county compares with South Carolina

Charleston20
South Carolina96

How this county compares with South Carolina

South Carolina overall: 96 equipment rental establishments. This county holds fewer rental establishments than the typical county in this state.

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Equipment rental establishments · Charleston, SC · 2022 reference year

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Source: Equipment Rental Compare Equipment Rental Index: Charleston, SC

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Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022, NAICS 532412 and 532310, read 2026-09-10.

www2.census.gov County Business Patterns 2022, county file (US Census Bureau) (US Government public domain)
census.gov County Business Patterns programme page (US Census Bureau) (US Government public domain)
www2.census.gov Census gazetteer 2023, county names and centroids (US Government public domain)

Methodology: One row per county per NAICS code from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns file for 2022, at NAICS 532412 (construction, mining and forestry machinery and equipment rental and leasing) and 532310 (general rental centers), which together are what this hub is about: the machine yards and the tool counters. The count is ESTABLISHMENTS, meaning physical locations, not companies: one national chain with four yards in a county counts four times, which is the right unit for somebody asking who is near them. County names and coordinates come from the Census gazetteer; a county the gazetteer does not name is left out rather than guessed. CBP suppresses employment and payroll detail for small cells, so this index publishes establishment counts alone. There is no register of rental yards to read, because renting a machine is not a licensed activity in the United States, and this index does not pretend to be one: it says how many are there, not which.

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