Bowman, South Carolina.
Typical home $131,554 (+5.1% in a year). Orangeburg, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$351 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,377 +5%
- $125,176$131,554 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,212 +8%
- $121,341$131,554 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.
- Bowman$690
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Bowman, SC rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bowman, Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Bowman is a town of 788 people in Orangeburg County. Unemployment in Orangeburg County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orangeburg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bowman is a very small town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, where homes are modestly priced and household incomes in the county sit below the national picture. Not many adults here hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and cold nights, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month, and rain and melted snow arrive steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities. Across Orangeburg County, some of the largest workplaces are Orangeburg Schools, THE Regional Medical Center and South Carolina State University. Job numbers in the county slipped last year, and unemployment there has eased since a year earlier. The typical commute is a long one, and a share of people work from home.
Things to do. Most outings from Bowman mean a longer drive. Lake Marion is a large reservoir popular for time on the water, and Santee State Park, a protected area, lies near it. For something quieter, Francis Beidler Forest is a protected stretch of swamp woodland.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Orangeburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orangeburg County had 27,181 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orangeburg Municipal Airport weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orangeburg County
- Orangeburg SchoolsSchool district1,907FTE
- THE Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,215FTE
- MUSC Health OrangeburgGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,198
- Flextronics AmericaLawn and garden equipment manufacturing1,059
- South Carolina State UniversityUniversity or college684
- Lennox InternationalAir-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing655
- County of OrangeburgGeneral services departments, government640
- ADUSA Dist DC 30 ElloreeGeneral warehousing and stora429
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,867 people in all across the county; Bowman has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Bowman’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Orangeburg County and the Orangeburg, SC metro.
Bowman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bowman$131,554
- 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 Bowman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bowman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.