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Elgin, South Carolina.

A community in Lancaster County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Lancaster County’s.

Living in Elgin, Lancaster County, South Carolina

Elgin, in Lancaster County, had 2,357 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lancaster County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lancaster County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,357 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Elgin for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.5% Lancaster County, August 2026; 5.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Elgin for the Census survey to measure.
  • 913households
  • 3%below the poverty line
  • 22 mintypical commute
  • 0%work from home

What people in Lancaster County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care19%
  • Manufacturing16%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Professional and business services11%
  • Banks, insurance and property10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lancaster County had 29,090 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 55° and 32°; warmest in July, 91° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 55° 32° F M A M J J 91° 71° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 55° and 32°; warmest in July, 91° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 55° 32° F M A M J J 91° 71° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 71°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pageland weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Lancaster County

  1. Lancaster 01 SchoolsSchool district2,113FTE
  2. Lancaster County GovernmentExecutive and legislative office combinations1,065
  3. Nutramax LaboratoriesVitamins, uncompounded, manufacturing588
  4. Continental Tire the AmericasHeadquarters buildings582
  5. Musc Health Lancaster Medical CenterGeneral hospital518FTE
  6. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters362
  7. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
  8. Cardinal Health GreensboroDrugs merchant wholesalers261

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,545 people in all across the county; Elgin has none of its own. 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

  1. Strong windRelatively high
  2. Ice stormsRelatively high
  3. Cold wavesRelatively high
  4. LightningRelatively high
  5. TornadoesRelatively high
  6. Inland floodingRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elgin’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 Lancaster County.