Georgetown, South Carolina.
Typical home $247,917 (-0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,435 . Georgetown, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$677 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,639 -1%
- $249,555$247,917 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,734 +20%
- $207,183$247,917 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.
- Georgetown$1,301
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Georgetown, SC fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina
Georgetown is a city of 8,403 people in Georgetown County. Half its households earn more than $56,981 a year and half less, against $68,713 across Georgetown County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Georgetown County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Georgetown is a small coastal South Carolina city where residents are older than in most of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with manufacturing close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Georgetown are Georgetown 01 Schools, Georgetown Memorial Hospital and the International Paper mill. Unemployment in the county has come down from a year earlier, though there are fewer jobs across the county than there were the year before. Few people work from home, and the trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. The Sampit River runs in or beside town, and the Brown's Ferry vessel, an archaeological site, is close by as well. A longer drive brings you to Brookgreen Gardens and to Huntington Beach State Park, both a day's outing away.
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- 3,532households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Georgetown County had 24,861 jobs in 2025, 4.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Georgetown County Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Georgetown
- Georgetown 01 SchoolsSchool district1,495FTE
- Georgetown County GovernmentExecutive and legislative office combinations850
- Georgetown Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital815FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters281
- International Paper - Georgetown MillPaper mills123
- Food LionGrocery stores62
- Food LionGrocery stores55
- Sodexo at Tidelands Georgetown FoodFood service contractors42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,568 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Georgetown’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 Georgetown County and the Georgetown, SC metro.
Georgetown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Georgetown$247,917
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Georgetown listings, and the typical home goes pending in 48 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Georgetown27.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Georgetown48
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Georgetown166
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Georgetown29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Georgetown$317,841
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Georgetown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Georgetown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.