Alcolu, South Carolina.
Typical home $170,246 (-4.1% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$364 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,198 -4%
- $177,444$170,246 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $17,945 -10%
- $188,191$170,246 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alcolu$894
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Alcolu, SC fell 4.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alcolu, Clarendon County, South Carolina
Alcolu, in Clarendon County, had 402 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clarendon County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clarendon County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alcolu is a very small community in Clarendon County, South Carolina, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county are modest. The commute to work is short.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Clarendon County, the largest workplaces include Clarendon 06 Schools, Clarendon County government and Walmart. Unemployment across the county has eased somewhat compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has stayed close to level.
Things to do. Water and woodland are the main draws nearby. Lake Marion, a large reservoir, and Santee National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife, are both a longer drive away, as is Poinsett State Park. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the rain falls fairly evenly through the year, so outdoor outings are possible in most seasons.
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- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Clarendon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clarendon County had 6,700 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manning weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clarendon County
- Clarendon 06 SchoolsSchool district647FTE
- Clarendon CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Mcleod Health ClarendonGeneral hospital235FTE
- Clarendon County DSN BoardGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability198
- Clarendon OSB183
- Trimaco/Icon ProtectionPaper products, die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard175
- CumminsAll-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,380 people in all across the county; Alcolu has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alcolu’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Clarendon County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Alcolu home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alcolu$170,246
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Alcolu address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alcolu — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.