Loris, South Carolina.
Typical home $252,270 (+2.3% in a year). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$777 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,649 +2%
- $246,622$252,270 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,408 +29%
- $195,862$252,270 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.
- Loris$1,324
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Loris, SC rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Loris, Horry County, South Carolina
Loris is a city of 2,449 people in Horry County. Half its households earn more than $36,899 a year and half less, against $66,880 across Horry County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Loris is a small city in Horry County, South Carolina, with a population that has stayed modest even as the coast nearby has grown. Household incomes here run well below the county's, while the typical home is worth a fair amount relative to what many households earn. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than you might find in larger metropolitan areas. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and chilly nights, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Rain falls steadily through the year, and snow is rare.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. In Loris itself, the largest workplaces include McLeod Loris Seacoast Hospital, Laudisi and Builders FirstSource. The typical commute is fairly long, which reflects how many people travel out of town for work, and very few work from home. Unemployment across Horry County is lower than a year ago, and the county has added a small number of jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Grand Strand, the long stretch of beach along the coast, is the best known destination nearby, and it is a longer drive away. Lumber River State Park is a protected area of river and woodland, also a longer drive away. For a day on the water, Lake Waccamaw is a lake that sits a longer drive from town. Together they give a choice between the shore, the forest and the lake.
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- 1,161households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 32 mintypical commute
- 2%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 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Conway weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Loris
- Mcleod Loris Seacoast HospitalGeneral hospital1,056FTE
- LaudisiGeneral merchandise, durable goods, merchant wholesalers116
- Builders FirstSourceEngineered wood member manufacturing88
- Wilson Senior CareNursing homes87
- Food LionGrocery stores76
- Floco FoodsGrocery stores52
- Laudisi RetailWeb retailers40
- Blanton SuppliesHardware stores35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,044 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Loris’ 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 Horry County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Loris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Loris$252,270
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Loris 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.
- Loris27.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Loris75
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Loris12
Zip codes with a Loris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Loris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.