Estill, South Carolina.
Typical home $93,043 (-10.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$162 (+49%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,779 -10%
- $103,822$93,043 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,141 -14%
- $108,185$93,043 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.
- Estill$488
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Estill, SC fell 10.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Estill, Hampton County, South Carolina
Estill is a town of 1,821 people in Hampton County. Unemployment in Hampton County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hampton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Estill is a small town in Hampton County, in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Incomes here are low, and many households live below the poverty line. Homes cost far less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services also employing many. Across Hampton County, some of the largest workplaces are Hampton Schools, Hampton Regional Medical Center and Food Lion. The county has lost jobs over the past year, and unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Commutes tend to be long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Warren State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest outdoor option. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hampton Colored School, a museum, and to Rivers Bridge State Park, another protected area. The Salkehatchie River, also a longer drive away, is there for time near the water.
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- 696households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Hampton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hampton County had 4,677 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hampton 1S weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampton County
- Hampton SchoolsSchool district410FTE
- EB-LCOA-Le Creuset of America/EBGeneral merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers196
- Hampton Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital190FTE
- R+L Carriers - SAVGeneral freight trucking long-distance less than truckload123
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice121
- Food LionGrocery stores91
- Alpha GenesisLaboratory animal production88
- Elliott Sawmilling Co, LLC a subsidiary of and owned by CanforSawmills88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 984 people in all across the county; Estill has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 windVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Estill’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 Hampton County.
Estill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Estill$93,043
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Estill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Estill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.