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Brookdale, South Carolina.

A community in Orangeburg County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Orangeburg County’s.

Living in Brookdale, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

Brookdale, in Orangeburg County, had 3,845 people in the 2020 census. 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.

People 3,845 in the 2020 census; median age 32.9
Household income Too few homes in Brookdale for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 5.7% Orangeburg County, August 2026; 6.8% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Brookdale for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,549households
  • 13%of adults have a degree
  • 35%below the poverty line
  • 9%work from home

What people in Orangeburg County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care26%
  • Manufacturing18%
  • Shops (retail)13%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities7%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%
  • Professional and business services6%

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

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 60° and 37°; warmest in July, 93° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 60° 37° F M A M J J 93° 72° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 60° and 37°; warmest in July, 93° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 60° 37° F M A M J J 93° 72° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orangeburg weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Orangeburg County

  1. Orangeburg SchoolsSchool district1,907FTE
  2. THE Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,215FTE
  3. MUSC Health OrangeburgGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,198
  4. Flextronics AmericaLawn and garden equipment manufacturing1,059
  5. South Carolina State UniversityUniversity or college684
  6. Lennox InternationalAir-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing655
  7. County of OrangeburgGeneral services departments, government640
  8. 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; Brookdale has two 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

  1. HurricanesRelatively high
  2. Strong windRelatively high
  3. Ice stormsRelatively high
  4. LightningRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively moderate
  6. HailRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookdale’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 Orangeburg County.