Olanta, South Carolina.
Typical home $132,630 (-1.0% in a year). Florence, SC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$314 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,388 -1%
- $134,018$132,630 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,719 +4%
- $127,911$132,630 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.
- Olanta$696
- South Carolina$1,597
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 96 years.
Typical home values in Olanta, SC fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Olanta, Florence County, South Carolina
Olanta is a town of 550 people in Florence County. Unemployment in Florence County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Florence 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Olanta is a very small town in Florence County, South Carolina, where most people know one another by name. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical drive to work is a moderate one rather than a long haul. Homes cost well below what many Americans pay, and almost no one works from home.
Work. Residents earn their living mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels. Across Florence County, the largest workplaces include McLeod Regional Medical Center, Florence 01 Schools and Honda. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Woods Bay State Park, a protected area, and Moore Farms Botanical Garden are both a short drive away, which makes them easy outings for a quiet afternoon. For a longer drive, Darlington Raceway is one of the best known race tracks in the region. Winters are cool and mostly mild with very little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Florence County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Florence County had 69,704 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cades West weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Florence County
- Mcleod Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,771FTE
- Florence 01 SchoolsSchool district2,539FTE
- Mcleod Physician AssociatesManaging offices of physicians and surgeons1,566
- HondaAll-terrain vehicles, wheeled or tracked, manufacturing1,244
- QVC, Inc. (Florence)General warehousing and storage1,097
- Ruiz Food ProductsMexican foods, frozen, manufacturing976
- Musc Health Florence Medical CenterGeneral hospital904FTE
- Foodservice Florence635
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 110 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,556 people in all across the county; Olanta has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Olanta’s census tracts, 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 Florence County and the Florence, SC metro.
Olanta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olanta$132,630
- 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.
- Olanta8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Olanta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olanta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.