Jamestown, South Carolina.
Typical home $291,150 (+4.5% in a year). Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$710 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,647 +5%
- $278,504$291,150 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,539 +5%
- $277,612$291,150 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.
- Jamestown$1,528
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 73 years.
Typical home values in Jamestown, SC rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamestown, Berkeley County, South Carolina
Jamestown is a town of 68 people in Berkeley County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamestown is a very small town in Berkeley County, South Carolina, where people tend to know one another. Its people live close together, and the wider county shapes much of daily life here. The town sits in a part of the South where summers run hot and winters stay mild, and rain is frequent through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in professional and business services, manufacturing or shops. Jobs in Berkeley County have grown over the past year, and unemployment has fallen since a year earlier. Winters are milder than in much of the country, and summers are hot, with the warmest weather in July.
Things to do. Francis Marion National Forest is a protected area a short drive away, and Cypress Gardens, a botanical garden, lies a longer drive off. Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area, is also a longer drive away. Visitors who enjoy quiet woods and wetlands will find plenty within reach.
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- 2%below the poverty line
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, under a mile 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 across the county; Jamestown has none of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 Jamestown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Jamestown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamestown$291,150
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jamestown6
Zip codes with a Jamestown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamestown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.