Dillon, South Carolina.
Typical home $138,902 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$160 (+28%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,814 +2%
- $136,088$138,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $40,577 -23%
- $179,479$138,902 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.
- Dillon$729
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Dillon, SC rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dillon, Dillon County, South Carolina
Dillon is a city of 6,384 people in Dillon County. Half its households earn more than $35,891 a year and half less, against $46,605 across Dillon County; 33% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Dillon County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dillon is a small city in Dillon County, South Carolina, where incomes run well below the county's as a whole and poverty is common. Fewer households own their homes here than across much of the country, and typical home values are modest. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home, so most people leave town each day for a fairly long commute. Winters are mild and short, with a trace of snow in a typical year, and summers are hot and rainy.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Dillon are Dillon 04 Schools, Walmart and McLeod Medical Center - Dillon. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. South of the Border, an amusement park, is a short drive away, as is Little Pee Dee State Park, a protected area good for a day outdoors. Lumber River State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away, and so is the Carolina Civic Center, a theatre.
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- 2,512households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 33%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dillon County had 9,422 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 92° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dillon weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dillon
- Dillon 04 SchoolsSchool district535FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters230
- Mcleod Medical Center - DillonGeneral hospital222FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores73
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores51
- DillonMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 704 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dillon’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 Dillon County.
Dillon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dillon$138,902
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Dillon listings — 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.
- Dillon17.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dillon26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dillon6
Zip codes with a Dillon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dillon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.