Hampton, South Carolina.
Typical home $180,541 (+5.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$519 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,680 +6%
- $170,861$180,541 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,458 +24%
- $145,084$180,541 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.
- Hampton$948
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Hampton, SC rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hampton, Hampton County, South Carolina
Hampton is a town of 2,694 people in Hampton County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hampton is a small town in the South Carolina Lowcountry, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here are modest, and household incomes across Hampton County run below those in much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Hampton are Food Lion, Lowcountry Grocers and Spencer Industries, which makes awnings and fiberglass products. Unemployment across Hampton County has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. The Hampton Colored School, a museum, is in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Rivers Bridge State Park and Lake Warren State Park, both protected areas, and to the Salkehatchie River. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 1,244households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 5%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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hampton
- Food LionGrocery stores91
- Lowcountry GrocersGrocery stores54
- Spencer Industries Incorporated - Hampton LocationAwnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 169 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of HamptonRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hampton’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.
Hampton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hampton$180,541
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hampton 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.
- Hampton17.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hampton28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hampton6
Zip codes with a Hampton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hampton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.