Mc Bee, South Carolina.
Typical home $169,076 (+5.8% in a year). Florence, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$448 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,272 +6%
- $159,804$169,076 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,124 +8%
- $155,952$169,076 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.
- Mc Bee$887
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Mc Bee, SC rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mc Bee, Chesterfield County, South Carolina
Mc Bee is a town of 758 people in Chesterfield County. Unemployment in Chesterfield County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chesterfield County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mc Bee is a very small town in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, where everyone is likely to be familiar with a good many of their neighbors. Homes are priced modestly, and incomes in the county run below those across much of the country. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Chesterfield County, the largest workplaces include Chesterfield 01 Schools, Walmart and the Schaeffler Group's bearing plant. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has shrunk over the past year.
Things to do. The Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for a walk outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Kalmia Gardens, a botanical garden, and to Darlington Raceway, one of the best known race tracks in the region. Lee State Park and Cheraw State Park are also a longer drive away, for time by the water or under the trees.
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- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Chesterfield County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chesterfield County had 13,763 jobs in 2025, 3.1% 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 92° 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 Hartsville weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chesterfield County
- Chesterfield 01 SchoolsSchool district1,107FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage917
- Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Plant 1Needle roller bearings manufacturing805
- A.O. SmithWater heaters, commercial-type, manufacturing468
- Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Cheraw 2Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing453
- Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems Americas, Inc. - Pearl Street FacilityBall valves, industrial-type, manufacturing329
- Carolina Canners, Inc. (Cheraw)Artificially carbonated waters manufacturing317
- Milliken and CompanyTextile broadwoven fabrics mills300
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,951 people in all across the county; Mc Bee has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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 high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mc Bee’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 Chesterfield County and the Florence, SC metro.
Mc Bee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mc Bee$169,076
- 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.
- Mc Bee5
Zip codes with a Mc Bee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mc Bee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.