Clio, South Carolina.
Typical home $129,239 (-18.8% in a year). Bennettsville, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $281 (-29%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $29,825 -19%
- $159,064$129,239 since Sep 2025
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.
- Clio$678
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Clio, SC fell 18.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clio, Marlboro County, South Carolina
Clio is a town of 608 people in Marlboro County. Unemployment in Marlboro County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marlboro County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clio is a very small town in Marlboro County, South Carolina, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Homes here are modest in price compared with much of the country, and household incomes across the county run low. Winters are cool and short, summers are hot, and rain falls through the year with only rare snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Marlboro County, the largest workplaces include Marlboro 01 Schools, Sopakco, which makes processed meats, and Marley Engineered Products, which makes heating equipment. Unemployment in the county is higher than in many places, and the number of jobs has been shrinking, so work can be hard to find close to home. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is long.
Things to do. The best known places nearby are Darlington Raceway and Rockingham Speedway, both race tracks, each a longer drive away. South of the Border, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Cheraw State Park is a protected area, likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 48 mintypical commute
What people in Marlboro County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marlboro County had 5,404 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mccoll Nnw weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marlboro County
- Marlboro 01 SchoolsSchool district680FTE
- Marlboro0349
- SopakcoProcessed meats manufacturing338
- Sopakco (2)Processed meats manufacturing338
- Marley Engineered ProductsHeating equipment, warm air, manufacturing328
- Bennettsville Health and Rehabilitiation CenterLongterm care3 facility201
- Arauco BennettsvilleParticleboard manufacturing200
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters166
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,325 people in all across the county; Clio 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clio’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 Marlboro County and the Bennettsville, SC metro.
Clio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clio$129,239
- 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 Clio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.