Huger, South Carolina.
Typical home $526,315 (+1.5% in a year). Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,500 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,978 +2%
- $518,337$526,315 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,121 +20%
- $438,194$526,315 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.
- Huger$2,762
- 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 Huger, SC rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huger, Berkeley County, South Carolina
The Census does not count Huger on its own, so the figures here are Berkeley County's. Half the county's households earn more than $84,358 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Berkeley County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Berkeley County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huger is a community in Berkeley County, in the coastal part of South Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents have settled in for the long run. Winters are mild but cold enough to be felt, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain and some melted snow.
Work. Berkeley County's job count grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in shops. Fewer people work from home than travel to a workplace, and a typical commute takes a good portion of the morning or evening.
Things to do. Fort Sumter is one of the best known sites in the area, a fort a longer drive away. The Francis Marion National Forest is a protected area a short drive away, good for walks among the trees. Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site, an archaeological site also a short drive away, offers a quiet look at the area's past.
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- 93,711households
- 36.9median age
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Berkeley County 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 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jamestown weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Berkeley County
- Berkeley 01 SchoolsSchool district4,868FTE
- Berkeley County GovernmentCounty supervisors' and executives' offices1,887
- Volvo Car US Operations/RidgevilleAssembly plants, passenger car, on chassis of own manufacture1,785
- Nucor Steel-BerkeleySteel mills1,050
- Thorne 620 OmniHerbal supplements manufacturing604
- GXO Logistics Supply ChainGeneral warehousing and storage527
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters484
- KBRBase facilities operation support services475
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 228 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,534 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Berkeley County, 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.
Huger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huger$526,315
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Huger 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.
- Huger28.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Huger38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Huger6
Zip codes with a Huger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.