Atlantic Beach, South Carolina.
Typical home $290,159 (+1.0% in a year). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$696 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,744 +1%
- $287,415$290,159 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,271 +10%
- $262,888$290,159 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.
- Atlantic Beach$1,523
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Atlantic Beach, SC rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atlantic Beach, Horry County, South Carolina
Atlantic Beach is a town of 195 people in Horry County. Unemployment in Horry County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Horry County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Atlantic Beach is a very small town on the South Carolina coast in Horry County, with a population that is tiny even by small-town standards. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents of the area tend to work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Horry County, the largest workplaces include Horry 01 Schools, Horry County Government and Coastal Carolina University. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. The Alabama Theatre is in or beside town, and the Carolina Opry, another theatre, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Grand Strand, the long stretch of beach that the region is known for, and to Family Kingdom Amusement Park.
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What people in Horry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Horry County had 146,160 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 74°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Myrtle Bch Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Horry County
- Horry 01 SchoolsSchool district6,830FTE
- Horry County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government3,040
- Coastal Carolina UniversityUniversity or college1,767
- Grand Strand Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital1,616FTE
- Conway HospitalGeneral hospital1,497FTE
- Mcleod-seacoast Medical CTRHospitals, general medical and surgical1,082
- Mcleod Loris Seacoast HospitalGeneral hospital1,056FTE
- Palmetto Corp of ConwaySurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway879
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 284 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,738 people in all across the county; Atlantic Beach has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atlantic Beach’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Horry County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Atlantic Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atlantic Beach$290,159
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Atlantic Beach8
Zip codes with a Atlantic Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atlantic Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.