Hamer, South Carolina.
Typical home $150,658 (+6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $42 (-5%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $9,146 +6%
- $141,511$150,658 since Sep 2025
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.
- Hamer$791
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hamer, SC rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamer, Dillon County, South Carolina
Hamer, in Dillon County, had 820 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Dillon County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dillon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamer is a very small community in Dillon County, South Carolina, close enough to the North Carolina line that the neighboring state feels just across the way. Homes here cost far less than the national typical, and household incomes across Dillon County sit below the state's and the country's. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January bringing cool highs and freezing nights, and snow is rare. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Dillon County, some of the largest workplaces are Harbor Freight Tools, Perdue Foods and Dillon 04 Schools. Joblessness across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though it remains fairly high, and the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. South of the Border, the roadside amusement park, is in or beside town and is one of the best known stops along this stretch of highway. For time outdoors, Lumber River State Park and Little Pee Dee State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away. The Florence Air & Missile Museum, also a longer drive away, suits a rainy afternoon.
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What people in Dillon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dillon County had 9,422 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dillon weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dillon County
- Harbor Freight ToolsGeneral warehousing and storage1,456
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,101
- Dillon 04 SchoolsSchool district535FTE
- Wyman Gordon-DillonAircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing292
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters230
- Mcleod Medical Center - DillonGeneral hospital222FTE
- Dillon 03 SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- Elite Quartz ManufacturingQuartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,067 people in all across the county; Hamer 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamer’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 Dillon County.
Hamer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamer$150,658
- 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 Hamer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.