Elloree, South Carolina.
Typical home $176,915 (-1.6% in a year). Columbia, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,881 -2%
- $179,796$176,915 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $1,111 -1%
- $178,026$176,915 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.
- Elloree$929
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Elloree, SC fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elloree, Calhoun County, South Carolina
Elloree is a town of 570 people in Calhoun County. Half its households earn more than $33,796 a year and half less, against $58,682 across Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elloree is a very small town in Calhoun County, with a population that could gather in a single large church hall. Household incomes here are well below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small share of residents work from home. Winters are mild and short, with cool days and cold nights, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Calhoun County, some of the largest workplaces are Alpek Polyester USA's Columbia site, which makes plastic resins, the Calhoun 01 Schools district, and Zeus Columbia, a plastics manufacturer. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Santee State Park, a protected area, and the Santee Indian Mound and Fort Watson, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Marion is a large reservoir, and Congaree National Park, the best known place on the list, is a longer drive away. Each makes a good day trip for anyone who enjoys water, woods or local history.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 8%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 4,571 jobs in 2025, 0.3% 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 70°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Holly Hill Southwest weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Alpek Polyester USA, LLC-Columbia SitePolyethylene terephathalate resins manufacturing453
- Calhoun 01 SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Zeus ColumbiaProfile shapes, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing259
- Foremost Pipeline ConstructionSewer main, pipe and connection, construction248
- Devro - Sandy RunSausage casings, collagen, made from purchased hides245
- Stier Supply CompanyDoor frames and sash, wood and covered wood, manufacturing190
- Calhoun Convalescent CenterSkilled nursing facilities172
- Zeus GastonProfile shapes, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,381 people in all across the county; Elloree has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elloree’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 Calhoun County and the Columbia, SC metro.
Elloree home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elloree$176,915
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Elloree 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.
- Elloree18.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Elloree30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Elloree5
Zip codes with a Elloree address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elloree — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.