Catawba, South Carolina.
Typical home $321,531 (-2.2% in a year). Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$917 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,085 -2%
- $328,616$321,531 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,239 +13%
- $283,292$321,531 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.
- Catawba$1,688
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Catawba, SC fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Catawba, York County, South Carolina
Catawba, in York County, had 1,301 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in York County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in York County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Catawba is a small community in York County, South Carolina, home to a modest number of people at the last census. Homes here are typically valued well below what the county's higher household incomes might suggest, and winters are mild, with a January that is cool but seldom harsh. Summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in shops. Within the town itself, the larger workplaces include New Indy Catawba, a paperboard manufacturer, and the Nucor Harris Rebar facility, which fabricates concrete reinforcing bar assemblies. The commute is a long one for many, and only a small part of the workforce works from home. York County added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, Landsford Canal State Park is a protected area, and Andrew Jackson State Park offers a museum. Sugar Creek, a river, is also close by. For a longer outing, Carowinds is an amusement park, and Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte is a stadium.
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- 32 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in York County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. York County had 106,236 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 70°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winthrop Univ weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Catawba
- New Indy CatawbaPaperboard manufacturing401
- New Indy-CatawbaIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services36
- Nucor Harris Rebar North Carolina Inc Catawba FacilityConcrete reinforcing bar assemblies, fabrication22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 459 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Catawba’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 York County and the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro.
Catawba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Catawba$321,531
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Catawba7
Zip codes with a Catawba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Catawba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.