Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
Typical home $400,069 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,919 (+3.2%). Georgetown, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,156 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,793 +1%
- $397,276$400,069 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,599 +26%
- $318,470$400,069 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.
- Murrells Inlet$2,100
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Murrells Inlet, SC rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Murrells Inlet, SC rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Murrells Inlet runs $746/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,016 in May 2024.
That is $2,665 a month against $1,919 rent: a $2,100 mortgage payment, plus $137 property tax and $428 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Murrells Inlet
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$2,665
- Renting$1,919
- Mortgage only$2,100
Property tax · $137/mo 0.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Georgetown County, SC
Insurance & upkeep · $428/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 Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, South Carolina
Murrells Inlet, in Georgetown County, had 9,740 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $77,438 a year and half less, against $68,713 across Georgetown County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Georgetown County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 4.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Murrells Inlet is a community on the South Carolina coast, and it is an older one: residents are considerably older than in most American places, and many are retired or close to it. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and household incomes are higher than across Georgetown County as a whole. Winters are mild, with a cold spell in January that stays well above freezing by day, while summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing a good number. Waccamaw Community Hospital and Tidelands Health Rehabilitation Hospital are among the largest workplaces in the community, along with Food Lion. Commutes are fairly ordinary in length, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Huntington Beach State Park and Brookgreen Gardens are both a short drive away, and both are the kind of place where a slow afternoon outdoors comes easily. Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Grand Strand beaches are a longer drive away.
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- 4,605households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Georgetown County had 24,861 jobs in 2025, 4.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 72°. About 55 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brookgreen Gardens weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Murrells Inlet
- Waccamaw Community HospitalGeneral hospital561FTE
- Tidelands Health Rehabilitation HospRehabilitation hospital191FTE
- SodexoJanitorial services147
- Food LionGrocery stores64
- Murrells InletMail and parcel delivery31
- US LBM HoldingsOther building material dealers25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 345 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- HurricanesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of Murrells InletRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murrells Inlet’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 Georgetown County and the Georgetown, SC metro.
Murrells Inlet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murrells Inlet$400,069
- South Carolina$304,319
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Murrells Inlet listings, and the typical home goes pending in 37 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Murrells Inlet30.04%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Murrells Inlet37
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Murrells Inlet514
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Murrells Inlet101
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Murrells Inlet$350,656
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Murrells Inlet96.72%
Zip codes with a Murrells Inlet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murrells Inlet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.