Lake View, South Carolina.
Typical home $202,913 (+20.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$154 (+17%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $33,818 +20%
- $169,095$202,913 since Sep 2025
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.
- Lake View$1,065
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lake View, SC rose 20.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lake View, Dillon County, South Carolina
Lake View is a town of 764 people in Dillon County. Unemployment in Dillon County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dillon 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lake View is a very small town in Dillon County, in the northeastern corner of South Carolina. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and household incomes across the county run on the modest side, while a typical home here costs well under what many Americans pay. Winters are mild and cool, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot by July, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing. Across Dillon County, some of the largest workplaces are Harbor Freight Tools, Perdue Foods and Dillon 04 Schools. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Little Pee Dee State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Lumber River State Park is another protected area a longer drive away. South of the Border, an amusement park and one of the best known roadside stops along the interstate, is also a longer drive away. For an evening out, the Carolina Civic Center is a theatre a longer drive away.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Dillon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dillon County had 9,422 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lumber River Sp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dillon County
- Harbor Freight ToolsGeneral warehousing and storage1,456
- Perdue FoodsPoultry processing1,101
- Dillon 04 SchoolsSchool district535FTE
- Wyman Gordon-DillonAircraft hardware, metal, manufacturing292
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters230
- Mcleod Medical Center - DillonGeneral hospital222FTE
- Dillon 03 SchoolsSchool district207FTE
- Elite Quartz ManufacturingQuartz crystals, electronic application, manufacturing121
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,067 people in all across the county; Lake View has one 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lake View’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Dillon County.
Lake View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lake View$202,913
- 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.
- Lake View6
Zip codes with a Lake View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lake View — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.