Ladson, South Carolina.
Typical home $314,411 (-1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,665 (+2.8%). Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$873 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,400 -1%
- $318,811$314,411 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,272 +19%
- $263,139$314,411 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.
- Ladson$1,650
- 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 Ladson, SC fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Ladson, SC rose 2.8% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Ladson runs $423/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $618 in Apr 2024.
That is $2,089 a month against $1,665 rent: a $1,650 mortgage payment, plus $102 property tax and $337 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Ladson
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,089
- Renting$1,665
- Mortgage only$1,650
Property tax · $102/mo 0.39% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Charleston County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $337/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Ladson, Charleston County, South Carolina
Ladson, in Charleston County, had 15,550 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $78,760 a year and half less, against $88,494 across Charleston County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Charleston County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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. Ladson is a community in Charleston County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are younger than in much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents sit in a middle range for the area. Winters are mild, with cool nights in January, summers turn hot by July, and rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Ladson are College Park Elementary School, Sangaree Middle School and CMC, which handles container and chassis maintenance and repair. Commutes tend to be long, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many communities.
Things to do. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away, and Buccaneer Field, a stadium, is also close by. A longer drive brings you to Fort Sumter, a fort, and to the H. L. Hunley, a museum.
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- 5,777households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Charleston County had 283,985 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Summerville 4W weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ladson
- College Park Elementary SchoolElementary and secondary schools163
- Sangaree Middle SchoolElementary and secondary schools121
- College Park Middle SchoolElementary and secondary schools111
- CMCIntermodal container and chassis maintenance and repair106
- BrightviewLandscaping services68
- Yard Nique68
- BrightviewLandscaping services59
- Clean Harbors59
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 952 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of LadsonRelatively 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 Ladson’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 Charleston County and the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
Ladson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ladson$314,411
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Ladson 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.
- Ladson30.92%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ladson210
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ladson46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Ladson$316,447
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Ladson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ladson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.