Nichols, South Carolina.
Typical home $194,857 (+10.0% in a year). Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$635 (+164%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,704 +10%
- $177,152$194,857 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,633 +28%
- $152,223$194,857 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.
- Nichols$1,023
- 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 Nichols, SC rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nichols, Horry County, South Carolina
Nichols is a town of 234 people in Horry County. Unemployment in Horry County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Horry County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nichols is a very small town in Horry County, South Carolina, home to only a small number of residents. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month and highs staying above freezing, while summers turn hot by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. The commute is on the long side, and very few people work from home. Across Horry County, some of the largest workplaces are Horry 01 Schools, Coastal Carolina University and Conway Hospital. Jobs across the county grew slightly last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Little Pee Dee State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Lumber River State Park, also a protected area, and South of the Border, an amusement park, are both a longer drive away. Nichols lies within easy reach of rivers and wooded parkland, though most outings here mean getting in the car.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 31 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Horry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Horry County had 146,160 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mullins weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Horry County
- Horry 01 SchoolsSchool district6,830FTE
- Horry County GovernmentGeneral services departments, government3,040
- Coastal Carolina UniversityUniversity or college1,767
- Grand Strand Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital1,616FTE
- Conway HospitalGeneral hospital1,497FTE
- Mcleod-seacoast Medical CTRHospitals, general medical and surgical1,082
- Mcleod Loris Seacoast HospitalGeneral hospital1,056FTE
- Palmetto Corp of ConwaySurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway879
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 284 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 35,738 people in all across the county; Nichols has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nichols’ 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 Horry County and the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC metro.
Nichols home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nichols$194,857
- 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.
- Nichols10
Zip codes with a Nichols address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nichols — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.