Kingstree, South Carolina.
Typical home $115,130 (-4.6% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$277 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,543 -5%
- $120,674$115,130 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,491 +6%
- $108,639$115,130 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.
- Kingstree$604
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 60 years.
Typical home values in Kingstree, SC fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingstree, Williamsburg County, South Carolina
Kingstree is a town of 3,244 people in Williamsburg County. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Williamsburg County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williamsburg 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingstree is a small town and the seat of Williamsburg County, in the low country of eastern South Carolina. Incomes in the county run low, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, so renting is common, and homes here cost far less than in most of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Kingstree are Williamsburg 01 Schools, Williamsburg Technical College and Food Lion. Unemployment in the county is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A typical commute is a fairly long one for a small town.
Things to do. Midway Dragway, a race track, is a short drive away. Woods Bay State Park, a protected area, and Lake Marion, a large reservoir, are each a longer drive. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, warmest in July.
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- 1,297households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Williamsburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williamsburg County had 6,466 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kingstree weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kingstree
- Williamsburg 01 SchoolsSchool district585FTE
- Williamsburg Technical CollegeTwo-year college94
- Food LionGrocery store79
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores63
- Farmers Telephone CooperativeLocal telephone carriers, wired50
- KingstreeMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 212 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of KingstreeRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of KingstreeRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of KingstreeRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingstree’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 Williamsburg County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Kingstree home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingstree$115,130
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Kingstree listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Kingstree26.08%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kingstree28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kingstree address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingstree — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.