Conway, South Carolina.
Typical home $288,118 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,826 (+2.2%). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $782 +0%
- $287,336$288,118 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,211 +23%
- $234,907$288,118 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.
- Conway$1,512
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Conway, SC rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Conway, SC rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Conway runs $74/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $293 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,899 a month against $1,826 rent: a $1,512 mortgage payment, plus $79 property tax and $308 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Conway
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,899
- Renting$1,826
- Mortgage only$1,512
Property tax · $79/mo 0.33% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Horry County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $308/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Conway, Horry County, South Carolina
Conway is a city of 24,849 people in Horry County. Half its households earn more than $56,650 a year and half less, against $66,880 across Horry County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Conway was 6.5% in August 2026, and Horry County had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Conway is a city with a younger population than most places, and incomes that run below the county's across Horry County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent, and poverty is a real part of life here. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, while summers are hot and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Conway are Conway Hospital, Horry-Georgetown Technical College and Walmart. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, and across Horry County there were slightly more jobs last year than the year before, with a typical commute that is neither short nor long.
Things to do. Close to home, the Burroughs School and the United States Post Office are both museums in or beside town, and Tuckahoe Bay, a protected area, is a short drive away. Brooks Stadium is also a short drive off. For a day out, the Grand Strand beach is a longer drive away, as is Huntington Beach State Park.
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- 8,762households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Horry County had 146,160 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Conway weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Conway
- Conway HospitalGeneral hospital1,497FTE
- Horry-Georgetown Technical CollegeTwo-year college589
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters456
- PruittHealth-ConwayNursing homes207
- New South Lumber Company, Inc. a subsidiary of and owned by CanforSawmills195
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter174
- Grand Strand Water & Sewer AuthorityWater supply systems166
- ConwayMail and parcel delivery128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,369 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of ConwayRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Conway’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Horry County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Conway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Conway$288,118
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Conway listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Conway34.50%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Conway40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Conway533
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Conway110
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Conway$292,940
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Conway98.02%
Zip codes with a Conway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Conway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Conway
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29526 | Conway | 54,130 | $1,809 | $300,321 |
| 29527 | Conway | 28,451 | $1,800 | $262,047 |