McColl, South Carolina.
Typical home $136,408 (-1.5% in a year). Bennettsville, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $85 (-11%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $2,106 -2%
- $138,514$136,408 since Sep 2025
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.
- McColl$716
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in McColl, SC fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McColl, Marlboro County, South Carolina
McColl is a town of 2,070 people in Marlboro County. Unemployment in Marlboro County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marlboro 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McColl is a small town in Marlboro County, South Carolina, in the eastern part of the state. Incomes across the county are well below those in much of the country, and homes here are priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most residents drive some distance to get to work, with very few working from home. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Marlboro County, the largest workplaces include Marlboro 01 Schools, Sopakco, a processed meats manufacturer, and Marley Engineered Products, which makes heating equipment. Unemployment across the county has eased somewhat over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Cheraw State Park and Little Pee Dee State Park are protected areas to walk, camp and enjoy the water, and both are a longer drive away. Rockingham Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive, as is South of the Border, a roadside amusement park.
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- 776households
- 3%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Marlboro County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marlboro County had 5,404 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mccoll Nnw weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marlboro County
- Marlboro 01 SchoolsSchool district680FTE
- Marlboro0349
- SopakcoProcessed meats manufacturing338
- Sopakco (2)Processed meats manufacturing338
- Marley Engineered ProductsHeating equipment, warm air, manufacturing328
- Bennettsville Health and Rehabilitiation CenterLongterm care3 facility201
- Arauco BennettsvilleParticleboard manufacturing200
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters166
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,325 people in all across the county; McColl has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 McColl’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 Marlboro County and the Bennettsville, SC metro.
McColl home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McColl$136,408
- 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 McColl address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McColl — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.