Cameron, South Carolina.
Typical home $232,073 (+4.2% in a year). Columbia, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$630 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,373 +4%
- $222,700$232,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,981 +20%
- $194,091$232,073 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.
- Cameron$1,218
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Cameron, SC rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cameron, Calhoun County, South Carolina
Cameron is a town of 376 people in Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cameron is a very small town in Calhoun County, South Carolina, where everyone is likely to know the neighbors. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Calhoun County are modest. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow come in generous amounts through the year.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Across Calhoun County, some of the largest workplaces are Calhoun 01 Schools, Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia Site, and Zeus Columbia. Job numbers across the county have been close to level, and the typical trip to work is a short one.
Things to do. Oliver C. Dawson Stadium is a short drive away, and most of the other nearby places call for a longer drive. Congaree National Park is the best known of them, and Lake Marion, a large reservoir, offers open water for boating and fishing. Santee State Park, a protected area, and the Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson, an archaeological site, are also a longer drive away.
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- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 4,571 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia SitePolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing453
- Calhoun 01 SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Zeus ColumbiaProfile shapes, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing259
- Foremost Pipeline ConstructionSewer main, pipe and connection, construction248
- Devro - Sandy RunSausage casings, collagen, made from purchased hides245
- Stier Supply CompanyDoor frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing190
- Calhoun Convalescent CenterSkilled nursing facilities172
- Zeus GastonProfile shapes, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,381 people in all across the county; Cameron 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cameron’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 Calhoun County and the Columbia, SC metro.
Cameron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cameron$232,073
- 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.
- Cameron5
Zip codes with a Cameron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cameron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.