Blackville, South Carolina.
Typical home $112,373 (-3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$88 (+18%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,421 -4%
- $116,794$112,373 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $54,792 -33%
- $167,165$112,373 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.
- Blackville$590
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Blackville, SC fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blackville, Barnwell County, South Carolina
Blackville is a town of 1,923 people in Barnwell County. Unemployment in Barnwell County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Barnwell County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blackville is a small town in Barnwell County, South Carolina, where the typical home costs less than in much of the country and household incomes are lower than in many places. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and work has been harder to come by lately: across Barnwell County, jobs have shrunk and unemployment has eased only slightly from a year ago. Winters are cool and fairly mild, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Barnwell County, some of the largest workplaces are Swiss Krono USA, a flooring and wood manufacturer, the Barnwell 45 Schools district, and Crane Payment Innovations, which makes vending machines. The typical commute is moderate, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Barnwell State Park, a protected area in or beside town, is the closest place to get outdoors. Lake Brown is a lake a short drive away. For a longer day out, Rivers Bridge State Park is another protected area a longer drive away.
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- 728households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Barnwell County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Barnwell County had 4,712 jobs in 2025, 3.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blackville West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Barnwell County
- Swiss Krono USAFlooring, wood, manufacturing350
- Barnwell 45 SchoolsSchool district302FTE
- Crane Payment InnovationsVending machines manufacturing246
- Barnwell 48 SchoolsSchool district200FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters179
- Allendale Barnwell DSN Board 20 Park Street BarnwellGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability170
- UniFirstIndustrial launderer51
- Koch and CoCabinets, wood, manufacturing39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,081 people in all across the county; Blackville has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blackville’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 Barnwell County.
Blackville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blackville$112,373
- 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.
- Blackville8
Zip codes with a Blackville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blackville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.