Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
Typical home $373,115 (+1.1% in a year), asking rent $2,195 (+4.3%). Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,060 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,147 +1%
- $368,968$373,115 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,131 +23%
- $303,984$373,115 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.
- Moncks Corner$1,958
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Moncks Corner, SC rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Moncks Corner, SC rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Moncks Corner runs $303/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $503 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,498 a month against $2,195 rent: a $1,958 mortgage payment, plus $140 property tax and $399 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Moncks Corner
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,498
- Renting$2,195
- Mortgage only$1,958
Property tax · $140/mo 0.45% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Berkeley County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $399/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina
Moncks Corner is a town of 13,297 people in Berkeley County. Half its households earn more than $91,500 a year and half less, against $84,358 across Berkeley County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Berkeley County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Moncks Corner is the seat of Berkeley County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town of its size. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Walmart and the schools, including Berkeley High School and Berkeley Middle School, are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment is lower than a year ago, the county has added jobs, and a typical commute is a fairly long one each way.
Things to do. Lake Moultrie, a reservoir, and the Strawberry Chapel and Childsbury Town Site, an archaeological site, are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Cypress Gardens, a botanical garden, and to the H. L. Hunley, a museum.
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- 5,194households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Berkeley County had 70,252 jobs in 2025, 4.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 74°. About 52 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moncks Corner North weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moncks Corner
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters484
- Child Nutrition ServicesElementary and secondary schools335
- District OfficeElementary and secondary schools285
- Berkeley High SchoolBoarding schools, elementary or secondary272
- Berkeley Middle SchoolBoarding schools, elementary or secondary204
- Foxbank Elementary SchoolElementary and secondary schools190
- Publix Super MarketsSupermarkets and other grocery stores190
- PruittHealth of Moncks CornerSkilled nursing facilities133
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,584 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moncks Corner’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 Berkeley County and the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro.
Moncks Corner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moncks Corner$373,115
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Moncks Corner listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Moncks Corner29.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Moncks Corner297
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Moncks Corner57
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Moncks Corner$351,113
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Moncks Corner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moncks Corner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Moncks Corner
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29461 | Moncks Corner | 43,816 | $2,195 | $372,856 |
| 29469 | Pinopolis | 470 | — | $537,004 |