York County capitalizes on its geography offering the advantages of a South Carolina location with adjacent access to the largest metropolitan area in the two Carolinas – Charlotte. It is also about an hour’s drive from the South Carolina State Capitol – Columbia. Strategically located in the center of the East Coast, York County is part of a region that collectively consists of about 2.3 million people living in sixteen counties in two different states: 12 counties in North Carolina and four in South Carolina.