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Keowee Key, South Carolina.

A community in Oconee County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Oconee County’s.

Living in Keowee Key, Oconee County, South Carolina

Keowee Key, in Oconee County, had 2,716 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $124,788 a year and half less, against $62,388 across Oconee County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Oconee County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Oconee County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,716 in the 2020 census; median age 65.6
Household income $124,788 the median, give or take $18,895 · Oconee County: $62,388
Unemployment 4.2% Oconee County, August 2026; 4.6% a year before
Homes 99% lived in by their owners; 1% rented
  • 1,404households
  • 66%of adults have a degree
  • 2%below the poverty line

What people in Oconee County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Manufacturing17%
  • Professional and business services11%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment10%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Building trades9%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Oconee County had 25,929 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 52° and 29°; warmest in July, 88° and 66° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 52° 29° F M A M J J 88° 66° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 52° and 29°; warmest in July, 88° and 66° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 52° 29° F M A M J J 88° 66° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 2 inches of snow and 61 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walhalla weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Oconee County

  1. Oconee 01 SchoolsSchool district1,721FTE
  2. Duke EnergyNuclear electric power generation1,037
  3. Oconee Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital667FTE
  4. Schneider ElectricArmature relays manufacturing640
  5. Oconee County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government583
  6. BASF MetalsPrecious metals recovering from scrap and/or alloying purchased metals359
  7. Jtekt Bearings North AmercaRaces, ball or roller bearings, manufacturing350
  8. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters335

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,557 people in all across the county; Keowee Key has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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

  1. Cold wavesVery high
  2. Inland floodingVery high
  3. Ice stormsRelatively high
  4. LightningRelatively high
  5. TornadoesRelatively high
  6. LandslidesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Keowee Key’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 Oconee County.