The Sculptor Galaxy is located at the center of the Sculptor Group, which is one of the nearest groups of galaxies to the Milky Way. The Sculptor Galaxy, which is the brightest galaxy in this group, and the companion galaxies NGC 247, PGC 2881, PGC 2933, Sculptor-dE1, and UGCA 15 form a gravitationally bound core near the center of the group. Most other galaxies associated with the Sculptor Group are only weakly gravitationally bound to this core.