Johnsonville, South Carolina.
Typical home $143,872 (+10.3% in a year). Florence, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$427 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,397 +10%
- $130,475$143,872 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,135 +30%
- $110,736$143,872 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.
- Johnsonville$755
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Johnsonville, SC rose 10.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Johnsonville, Florence County, South Carolina
Johnsonville is a city of 1,378 people in Florence County. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Florence County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Florence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Johnsonville is a small city in Florence County, South Carolina, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here are modest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might find in larger cities. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Johnsonville are Florence 05 Schools, Lowcountry Grocers and Floco Foods. Across Florence County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The Lynches River is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Brookgreen Gardens, a museum and garden, and Moore Farms Botanical Garden. Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, also a longer drive away, is protected land set aside for wildlife.
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- 469households
- 16%of adults have a degree
What people in Florence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Florence County had 69,704 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hemingway Ese weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnsonville
- Florence 05 SchoolsSchool district193FTE
- Lowcountry GrocersGrocery stores39
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 71 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Johnsonville’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 Florence County and the Florence, SC metro.
Johnsonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Johnsonville$143,872
- 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.
- Johnsonville16
Zip codes with a Johnsonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Johnsonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.