Hanahan, South Carolina.
Typical home $415,862 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,696 (+5.5%). Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,233 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $292 +0%
- $415,570$415,862 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,828 +29%
- $322,034$415,862 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.
- Hanahan$2,183
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hanahan, SC rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hanahan, SC rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hanahan runs $1,089/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,208 in May 2025.
That is $2,784 a month against $1,696 rent: a $2,183 mortgage payment, plus $156 property tax and $445 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hanahan
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,784
- Renting$1,696
- Mortgage only$2,183
Property tax · $156/mo 0.45% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Berkeley County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $445/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Hanahan, Berkeley County, South Carolina
Hanahan is a city of 20,325 people in Berkeley County. Half its households earn more than $87,984 a year and half less, against $84,358 across Berkeley County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Hanahan was 3.3% in August 2026, and Berkeley County had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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. Hanahan is a small city in Berkeley County, with a median age younger than much of the country and incomes a little above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a sizeable part of the community too. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Hanahan are GXO Logistics Supply Chain, Amazon and Hanahan High School. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and Berkeley County has added jobs.
Things to do. The H. L. Hunley, a museum, and MUSC Health Stadium are both a short drive away, as is Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, a botanical garden. A longer drive brings you to Fort Sumter, a fort of the kind that shaped the region's history.
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- 8,009households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berkeley County had 70,252 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 74°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Charleston International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hanahan
- GXO Logistics Supply ChainGeneral warehousing and storage527
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services437
- Trident Security ServicesSecurity guard services340
- The Reserve Healthcare and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities163
- Hanahan High SchoolElementary and secondary schools147
- ACI LogisticsLocal letter and parcel delivery services as part of intercity courier network126
- Bowen's Corner ElementaryElementary and secondary schools119
- Lowes FoodsGrocery stores113
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,916 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of HanahanRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hanahan’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 Berkeley County and the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
Hanahan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hanahan$415,862
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Hanahan listings — 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.
- Hanahan27.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hanahan99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hanahan27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hanahan$410,435
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Hanahan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hanahan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.