Longs, South Carolina.
Typical home $286,690 (-1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,904 . Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,390 -2%
- $291,080$286,690 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,337 +18%
- $242,353$286,690 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.
- Longs$1,505
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Longs, SC fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Longs, Horry County, South Carolina
The Census does not count Longs on its own, so the figures here are Horry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $66,880 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Horry County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Horry County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Longs is a community in Horry County, in the northeastern corner of South Carolina. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents tend to be older than the typical American. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, summers are hot, and the area gets a good deal of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with shops and professional and business services also employing people across the county. Unemployment has eased over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole, and household incomes sit a little below the national middle.
Things to do. Grand Strand, a beach a longer drive away, is one of the best known stretches of shoreline nearby. Myrtle Beach State Park, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers a place to spend time outdoors in a natural setting. For an evening out closer to home, the Alabama Theatre is a theatre a short drive away.
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- 158,779households
- 48.7median age
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Horry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Horry County had 146,160 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 74°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Myrtle Bch Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Horry County
- Horry 01 SchoolsSchool district6,830FTE
- Horry County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government3,040
- Coastal Carolina UniversityUniversity or college1,767
- Grand Strand Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital1,616FTE
- Conway HospitalGeneral hospital1,497FTE
- Mcleod-seacoast Medical CTRHospitals, general medical and surgical1,082
- Mcleod Loris Seacoast HospitalGeneral hospital1,056FTE
- Palmetto Corp of ConwaySurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway879
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 284 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,738 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Horry County, 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 Horry County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Longs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Longs$286,690
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Longs listings, and the typical home goes pending in 51 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Longs33.52%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Longs51
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Longs229
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Longs48
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Longs$275,472
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Longs97.99%
Zip codes with a Longs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Longs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.