Delco, North Carolina.
Typical home $209,971 (+5.3% in a year). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $109 (-9%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $10,474 +5%
- $199,497$209,971 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.
- Delco$1,102
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Delco, NC rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delco, Columbus County, North Carolina
Delco, in Columbus County, had 287 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $86,721 a year and half less, against $49,442 across Columbus County. Unemployment in Columbus County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Columbus County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delco is a very small community in Columbus County, and its households have incomes well above the county's. Typical home values sit at a level that many homeowners elsewhere would find modest. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and freezing nights, and summers are hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Columbus County, the largest workplaces include Columbus County Schools, Columbus Regional Healthcare System and Southeastern Community College. The county's unemployment rate has eased a little over the past year, though it has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Waccamaw State Park is a protected area on a lake, and Singletary Lake State Park is another, both a longer drive away. History is on offer at Moores Creek National Battlefield, an archaeological site that is also a longer drive away. Airlie Gardens, a botanical garden, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Columbus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Columbus County had 14,316 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moores Creek Nb weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Columbus County
- Columbus County SchoolsSchool district683FTE
- Columbus Regional Healthcare SystemGeneral hospital468FTE
- Southeastern Community CollegeTwo-year college335
- Whiteville City SchoolsSchool district309FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- West Fraser ArmourBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts150
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter137
- Liberty Commons Columbus CountySkilled nursing facilities120
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,435 people in all across the county; Delco has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delco’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 Columbus County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Delco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delco$209,971
- North Carolina$332,159
- 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 Delco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.