Nesmith, South Carolina.
Typical home $129,141 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,060 +8%
- $119,081$129,141 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,978 +29%
- $100,163$129,141 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.
- Nesmith$678
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Nesmith, SC rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nesmith, Williamsburg County, South Carolina
The Census does not count Nesmith on its own, so the figures here are Williamsburg County's. Half the county's households earn more than $46,213 a year and half less; 23% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Williamsburg County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williamsburg County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nesmith sits in Williamsburg County in eastern South Carolina, a quiet rural county. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Summers are hot, winters are cool, and rain and melted snow fall through much of the year.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and professional and business services. Across the county, unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, and jobs have grown over the past year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree, and fewer people work from home, than across most of the country.
Things to do. The Pee Dee River, the best known of the nearby places, is a longer drive away. Brookgreen Gardens, a museum, and Brown's Ferry Park, a park, are also a longer drive away. The Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is another longer drive away.
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- 12,291households
- 43.2median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Williamsburg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williamsburg County had 6,466 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 71°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hemingway Ese weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williamsburg County
- Williamsburg 01 SchoolsSchool district585FTE
- DSMPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing230
- House Of Raeford FarmsPoultry manufacturing220
- Williamsburg Regional HospitalCritical access hospital181FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice152
- Medical University Hospital AuthoritGeneral hospital135FTE
- Santee Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power111
- Williamsburg Technical CollegeTwo-year college94
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,183 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Williamsburg County, 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 Williamsburg County.
Nesmith home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nesmith$129,141
- 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 Nesmith address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nesmith — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.