Mayesville, South Carolina.
Typical home $89,347 (-12.6% in a year). Sumter, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$81 (+21%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,888 -13%
- $102,235$89,347 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $32,658 -27%
- $122,005$89,347 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.
- Mayesville$469
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mayesville, SC fell 12.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mayesville, Sumter County, South Carolina
Mayesville is a town of 548 people in Sumter County. Unemployment in Sumter County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sumter 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mayesville is a very small town in Sumter County, South Carolina. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Sumter County sit below the typical for the country. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Sumter County, some of the largest workplaces are Sumter 01 Schools, Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter Plant and Pilgrim's Sumter Fresh Processing. The usual trip to work is a fairly short one.
Things to do. For an evening out, the Sumter Town Hall-Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away. Those who like time outdoors can head to the Santee River, a longer drive away, or to Woods Bay State Park, a protected area that is also a longer drive away. Both make for a day trip rather than a quick errand.
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- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Sumter County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sumter County had 35,348 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 49 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sumter weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sumter County
- Thompson Construction GroupIndustrial building construction2,488
- Sumter 01 SchoolsSchool district2,178FTE
- Sumter UtilitiesTower, power distribution and communication, construction1,465
- Continental Tire the Americas LLC - Sumter PlantTires manufacturing1,410
- Pilgrim's sumter Fresh ProcessingPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing976
- Becton Dickinson SumterMedical supplies merchant wholesalers974
- Eaton942
- Prisma Health Tuomey HospitalGeneral hospital939FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,533 people in all across the county; Mayesville has none 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Mayesville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Sumter County and the Sumter, SC metro.
Mayesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mayesville$89,347
- 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.
Zip codes with a Mayesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mayesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.