Branchville, South Carolina.
Typical home $147,635 (+1.5% in a year). Orangeburg, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$403 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,148 +1%
- $145,487$147,635 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,289 +14%
- $129,346$147,635 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.
- Branchville$775
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Branchville, SC rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Branchville, Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Branchville is a town of 998 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Branchville is a small town in Orangeburg County, with fewer residents than most towns people think of as towns. Incomes across the county run below the county's own typical level for much of the country, and homes in town are priced modestly. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people who work have a fair drive to get there each day.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities close behind. Across Orangeburg County, the largest workplaces include Orangeburg Schools, THE Regional Medical Center and South Carolina State University. Unemployment across the county has eased over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and very few people in town work from home.
Things to do. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year, so outdoor outings suit much of the calendar. For a day out, the Orangeburg National Fish Hatchery is a park a longer drive away, and Colleton State Park and Rivers Bridge State Park are protected areas, also a longer drive away. Four Hole Swamp, a river, is another longer drive for those who like time near the water.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 1%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 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bamberg 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; Branchville 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 moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Branchville’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 Orangeburg County and the Orangeburg, SC metro.
Branchville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Branchville$147,635
- 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.
- Branchville10
Zip codes with a Branchville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Branchville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.