Newberry became a city in 1976, but did not report the change to the Census Bureau for more than twenty-five years.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town had a total area of 6.6 square miles (17.0 km2), all land.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 10,691 people, 4,047 households, and 2,233 families residing in the city.

European settlers (primarily German, Scots-Irish, and English) began arriving in great numbers in the 1750s.

During the American Civil War, Newberry College was used as a hospital for Confederate and later Union troops.

The historic Newberry Court House was not burned by William Tecumseh Sherman's troops as he swept through the South.

Violent racial incidents hit all over the country as part of the 1919 Red Summer.