Ehrhardt, South Carolina.
Typical home $141,648 (-9.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$325 (+77%) since Mar 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,940 -10%
- $156,588$141,648 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,813 -9%
- $156,460$141,648 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.
- Ehrhardt$743
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ehrhardt, SC fell 9.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ehrhardt, Bamberg County, South Carolina
Ehrhardt is a town of 457 people in Bamberg County. Half its households earn more than $34,868 a year and half less, against $44,370 across Bamberg County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Bamberg County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bamberg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ehrhardt is a very small town in Bamberg County, South Carolina, where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Winters are cool and short, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Bamberg County, the largest workplaces include the Bamberg 03 Schools, Voorhees University and Specialty Washer Co. of South Carolina. Unemployment across the county has eased from a year earlier, though the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Rivers Bridge State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the closest outdoor stop. A longer drive brings you to the Salkehatchie River, and to Topper, an archaeological site. Lake Brown and Colleton State Park are also farther afield for a day by the water or among the trees.
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- 11%below the poverty line
What people in Bamberg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bamberg County had 3,560 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bamberg weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bamberg County
- Bamberg 03 SchoolsSchool district319FTE
- Voorhees UniversityUniversity or college199
- Specialty Washer Co. of South CarolinaBolts, metal, manufacturing145
- Denmark Technical CollegeTwo-year college132
- Bamberg CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations124
- Delavan SprayOil burners, heating, manufacturing104
- PruitthealthSkilled nursing facilities102
- Edisto Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 657 people in all across the county; Ehrhardt has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ehrhardt’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 Bamberg County.
Ehrhardt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ehrhardt$141,648
- 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 Ehrhardt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ehrhardt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Ehrhardt
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29911 | Brunson | 1,516 | — | $151,729 |
| 29081 | Ehrhardt | 1,102 | — | $150,512 |