The coastal region which includes areas within the Pee Dee, Cape Fear, and Neuse-Pamlico River Basins in South Carolina and North Carolina was chosen as a focus area study (FAS) for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Water Census (NWC) in 2016. The objective of the NWC is to place technical information and tools in the hands of stake holders so that they can make informed decisions on water availability. The USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center, comprised of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, conducted a 3-year study of water use and availability, climate change, and population growth to provide information related to the competing societal and ecological water needs in the Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Basins of the Carolinas. One task to meet this objective was compiling water withdrawal and return data and other water use information from local, regional, and state-scale data sources. This information was used to develop water-use estimates used in a surface-water model, a groundwater model, and an ecological flow model. The simulations produced by these models were subsequently used to make predictions about future water availability and needs in the Coastal Carolina study area. This data release presents groundwater-withdrawals for Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina within the Atlantic Coastal Plain.