Carlisle, South Carolina.
Typical home $111,754 (-5.8% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$222 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,939 -6%
- $118,693$111,754 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $33,711 -23%
- $145,465$111,754 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.
- Carlisle$587
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Carlisle, SC fell 5.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carlisle, Chester County, South Carolina
Carlisle is a town of 321 people in Chester County. Half its households earn more than $61,029 a year and half less, against $52,458 across Chester County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Chester County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chester County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carlisle is a very small town in Chester County, South Carolina, with far fewer residents than most towns. Household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole, and few people live below the poverty line. Homes here are modestly priced. Winters are mild and rarely bring much snow, summers are hot, and rain falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Very few work from home. Across Chester County, some of the largest workplaces are Chester 01 Schools, Carolina Poly, and E& J Gallo Winery-Chester County Operations. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The McCollum Fish Weir, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town. A short drive away is Sumter National Forest, a large protected area of woods and trails, and Pinckneyville, another archaeological site. Chester State Park, a protected area for outdoor recreation, is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Chester County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chester County had 10,583 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 3 inches of snow and 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Santuck weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chester County
- Chester 01 SchoolsSchool district745FTE
- Carolina PolyBags, plastics film, single wall or multiwall, manufacturing738
- United Infrastructure Group576
- E& J Gallo Winery-Chester County OperationsAlcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers353
- ATI Specialty Materials - RichburgBar, nonferrous metals, made from purchased metals in wire drawing plants or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing, or extruding plants344
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing295
- Boise Cascade CoSoftwood veneer and plywood manufacturing258
- Guardian IndustriesFlat glass manufacturing249
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,420 people in all across the county; Carlisle 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carlisle’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 Chester County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Carlisle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carlisle$111,754
- 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 Carlisle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carlisle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.