Gable, South Carolina.
Typical home $167,380 (-2.7% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$361 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,649 -3%
- $172,029$167,380 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,945 -3%
- $173,325$167,380 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.
- Gable$879
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Gable, SC fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gable, Clarendon County, South Carolina
The Census does not count Gable on its own, so the figures here are Clarendon County's. Half the county's households earn more than $52,401 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 73% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Clarendon County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clarendon County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gable is a town in Clarendon County, South Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across the country as a whole. Typical home values are well below the national picture, incomes sit below the national middle, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country. The typical resident is older than the typical American.
Work. Across Clarendon County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Unemployment has fallen over the past year, and the number of jobs has stayed about level. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and fewer people work from home. Commutes are longer than many across the country.
Things to do. Woods Bay State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Lake Marion, a reservoir, and Moore Farms Botanical Garden are both a longer drive away. The Sumter Town Hall-Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive away.
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- 12,356households
- 45.9median age
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Clarendon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clarendon County had 6,700 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manning weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clarendon County
- Clarendon 06 SchoolsSchool district647FTE
- Clarendon CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations370
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Mcleod Health ClarendonGeneral hospital235FTE
- Clarendon County DSN BoardGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability198
- Clarendon OSB183
- Trimaco/Icon ProtectionPaper products, die-cut, made from purchased paper or paperboard175
- CumminsAll-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing148
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,380 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Clarendon County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Clarendon County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Gable home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gable$167,380
- 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 Gable address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gable — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.