1. Start with Garden City’s actual service area
The 2020–2024 ACS five-year population estimate is 11,591, with a margin of error of 744. It does establish a geographic boundary worth making explicit when you review intake routing. A firm may serve Garden City while also accepting inquiries from elsewhere in Horry County or from other parts of South Carolina. Those are different routing questions.
Recommended approach
Write down the geographic rules your intake team actually uses. Decide whether Garden City inquiries should follow the same path as other Horry County inquiries, whether matters outside the firm’s service area need a different response, and which location information must be collected before assignment.
