Bishopville, South Carolina.
Typical home $125,624 (-6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$207 (+46%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,712 -6%
- $134,336$125,624 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,210 -18%
- $153,834$125,624 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.
- Bishopville$659
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bishopville, SC fell 6.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina
Bishopville is a city of 3,024 people in Lee County. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Lee County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bishopville is a small city, and its residents tend to be somewhat older than in much of the country. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across most of America, and incomes run below the county's, with a good many households living below the poverty line. Not many adults hold a four-year degree. The Black River runs in or beside town, and winters are mild and short, with summers that turn hot, and rain or melted snow falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in government. Among the largest workplaces in Bishopville are Lee 01 Schools, Lee County Government and Ardagh Metal Packaging, which makes aluminum cans. Unemployment in Lee County is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Most people have a fairly short commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. Lee State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Darlington Raceway, one of the best known race tracks in the country, and to Kalmia Gardens, a botanical garden. The Black River, in or beside town, is close at hand for anyone who wants to be near the water.
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- 1,179households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 3,600 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bishopville 1ENE weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bishopville
- Lee 01 SchoolsSchool district311FTE
- Lee County GovernmentLegislative and executive office combinations185
- Coca Cola Consolidated177
- Ardagh Metal Packaging - BishopvilleAluminum can manufacturing112
- Food LionGrocery stores61
- RBC Bearings - Eastern Distribution CenterRoller bearings manufacturing31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 566 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of BishopvilleRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of BishopvilleRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BishopvilleRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of BishopvilleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bishopville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Lee County.
Bishopville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bishopville$125,624
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bishopville listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bishopville27.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bishopville25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bishopville4
Zip codes with a Bishopville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bishopville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.