Modoc, South Carolina.
Typical home $414,471 (+9.4% in a year). Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,364 (+168%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,762 +9%
- $378,709$414,471 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $141,337 +52%
- $273,134$414,471 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.
- Modoc$2,175
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Modoc, SC rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Modoc, McCormick County, South Carolina
Modoc, in McCormick County, had 312 people in the 2020 census. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in McCormick County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McCormick 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Modoc is a very small community in McCormick County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are valued well above what incomes in the county would suggest. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, and summers are hot, with rain and the occasional melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also employing many. Across McCormick County, the biggest workplaces include McCormick 01 Schools and Food Lion. Jobs in the county shrank slightly last year, and unemployment there has eased a little over the past year. Commutes are long, so many people travel a good distance to get to work.
Things to do. Hamilton Branch State Park, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and the Little River runs close by as well. A short drive away are Lake Strom Thurmond, a large reservoir, and Steven's Creek Heritage Preserve, another protected area. Fort Gordon is a longer drive away.
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- 65 mintypical commute
What people in McCormick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McCormick County had 2,024 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarks Hill West weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McCormick County
- McCormick 01 SchoolsSchool district148FTE
- Food LionGrocery stores73
- SC Dept of Parks, Recreation and TourismCommunity recreation programs, government68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 141 people in all across the county; Modoc 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 stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Modoc’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 McCormick County and the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC metro.
Modoc home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Modoc$414,471
- 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.
- Modoc5
Zip codes with a Modoc address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Modoc — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.