Latta, South Carolina.
Typical home $163,511 (+15.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$302 (+54%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,798 +15%
- $141,713$163,511 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,765 -3%
- $169,276$163,511 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.
- Latta$858
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Latta, SC rose 15.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Latta, Dillon County, South Carolina
Latta is a town of 1,296 people in Dillon County. Half its households earn more than $47,985 a year and half less, against $46,605 across Dillon County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Latta is a small town in Dillon County, South Carolina, home to a small community of residents at the last census. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a good share of residents still live below the poverty line. A typical home here is valued well below what many homeowners elsewhere would expect to pay. Winters are mild and brief, with almost no snow, while summers are hot and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents are most often employed in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing also providing many jobs. Across Dillon County, some of the largest workplaces are Perdue Foods, Dillon 04 Schools and McLeod Medical Center - Dillon. Unemployment in the county has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before, and only a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Little Pee Dee State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits anyone who likes time outdoors. Farther afield, Darlington Raceway is one of the best known race tracks in the region, and South of the Border is a roadside amusement park, both a longer drive away. Lumber River State Park is another protected area a longer drive off.
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- 611households
- 22%below the poverty line
- 6%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 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 1 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dillon weather station, 7 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; Latta has two 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 Latta’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 Dillon County.
Latta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Latta$163,511
- 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.
- Latta11
Zip codes with a Latta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Latta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.